This Is the Oldest Home For Sale in America

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jun 11, 7:55AM EDT

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Most of the oldest homes in America are located in what were the 13 original states. Many of these are near Boston. The areas around Cape Code and on the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard have homes that were built before 1700.

People began to populate Martha’s Vineyard in the mid-1600s. By 1671 the island had a colony. A century later, Martha’s Vineyard became one of New England’s whaling industry centers.

Fast forward to the 21st century and Martha’s Vineyard is a playground for the rich who summer there but are not permanent residents. The median price of a home has risen to over $1 million. There is anxiety among permanent residents that they will be priced out of the market.

The oldest home for sale in America is located on Martha’s Vineyard. The house at 9 Red Farm Road and Kelly Lane, West Tisbury, Massachusetts, is on the market for $5,995,000. It has seven bedrooms and three and a half baths. The main house covers 3,745 square feet. The total property is 21.29 acres of prized Martha’s Vineyard land on the north side of the island, which is nearest to the Massachusetts mainland.
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Since the land includes five parcels, it is possible it could be subdivided. Another choice feature is that it comes with a key to Hancock Beach, a South Shore private beach in Chilmark. The buildings have been renovated. The entire property is called Red Farm.

Some other features:

The antique barn features two levels and an attached greenhouse with a sauna, soaking pool, and a working 17th century French bathing tub. There is also a charming two bedroom guest house that was once a forge.

Martha’s Vineyard makes up almost all of Duke County. According to the Census Bureau, it has 17,332 residents. The median home value is $699,500, which is pulled up by the value of the expensive homes of summer residents. The median household income, which does not include these summer residents, is $71,811.

With a price of nearly $6 million, this house and property offer a sense of the rising prices local residents worry so much about.

Click here to see which county has the most expensive homes in America.
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.