Turn your attention to the two-story, weathered wood-frame house with diamond-paned windows and a massive central brick chimney. Built in sixteen sixty-seven by Jacob Mitchell, this structure at thirty-three Sandwich Street was soon purchased by Jabez Howland. Jabez was the son of John and Elizabeth Tilley Howland, two original Pilgrims who survived the Mayflower crossing. It is profound to stand before a structure that actually sheltered the immediate family of those first arrivals.
The building remained a private residence for generations, continuously occupied until nineteen fifteen. You can easily see how the streetscape evolved around it if you check out the before and after image on your screen. Take another glance at your app to see a nineteen twenty-one photograph, capturing the house prior to its extensive nineteen forties restoration.
Today, the Pilgrim John Howland Society operates the property as a museum, thoughtfully filling its rooms with authentic seventeenth-century furnishings. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in nineteen seventy-four, it endures as a rare, tangible link to the founding generation of Plymouth, making it the perfect place to conclude our journey.
