The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built ca. 1641, making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing.

Built by Jonathan Fayerbanks in 1636, and owned and occupied by him and his lineal descendants continuously for 268 years. Timbers, bricks and tiles came from England with the family in 1633. Now owned by "the Fairbanks Family in America", incorporated 1903. Avery Oak, older than the town, for which the builders of "Old Ironsides" are said to have offered seventy-five dollars.

It is open to the public as a museum.

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