Capt. Bartlett Allen House
10 Oxford Street, Fairhaven
(Private residence, not open to the public)
Built before 1790, this center chimney Cape Cod style house was the home of Capt. Bartlett Allen, one of four generations of Allen family boat builders to live in the Poverty Point neighborhood between the years of the Revolutionary War and 1915. After commanding two whaling voyages with the Pocahontas, he took over his father Eleazer’s boat building business.
In 1843, Capt. Allen’s daughter Jane G. Allen, a school teacher, tutored Japanese youth Manjiro Nakahama at the home.
