The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, stands quietly along East Street, holding a place unlike any other in New England history. . Built around 1637, the house is widely recognized as the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America. Constructed for Jonathan Fairbanks, an early English settler, the structure grew over generations as the family expanded, resulting in its distinctive long, asymmetrical form. The house remained in the Fairbanks family for eight generations, an extra