Historical Commission Projects

MACRIS Inventory of Cohasset’s Historical Assets, 1973 to present 

National Register of Historic Places Listings:

Caleb Lothrop House, Summer St., 1976

Cohasset Common Historic District, 1978, 1996

Government Island Historic District, 1994

Josephine M. Hagerty House, Atlantic Ave., 1997

Central Cemetery, Joy Place, 2003

Bates Ship Chandlery/Maritime Museum, Elm St., 2003

Captain John Wilson House, Elm St., 2003

Pratt Building, South Main St., 2006

  Captain’s Walk, 1983

Minot’s Lighthouse Watch Room Replica, 1989

Repairs to Beechwood Cemetery receiving tomb, 1989

Committee on Town History publications:

Volume III of Narrative History of Cohasset: 1950-2000 (2002)

Treasury of Cohasset History (2005)

Savor of Salt: An Anthology of Cohasset History (2006)

Exploring Historic Cohasset: 10 Tours and Concise History (2008)

      Origins of Cohasset: The Land and Its People (2012) Captain John Smith Day,   400th anniversary celebration, 2014

  Captain John Smith and Quonahassit Indian interpretive signs for Lawrence Wharf, 2014

  Large bronze plaque commemorating visit of Captain John Smith to Cohasset, 2014

  Small bronze plaque for Lawrence Wharf Pavilion, 2015

  Beacon Rock Sign, 2017

  Bronze Plaque for Government Island Historic District, 2018

  Sign for Minot’s Watch Room Replica, 2018

  Lighthouse Engineer’s Office Sign, 2019

  Oil House Restoration and bronze plaque, 2020

  Fishermen’s Well, 2020