Forbes House Museum

Designed by Isaiah Rogers and built in 1833, the Forbes House was referred to as "The Castle" by the family. A large Greek Revival house, it was symmetrical with a center entrance and windows flanked by wide flat pilasters, which were flat barge boards sanded to look like granite. Margaret Perkins Forbes, for whom the house was built, lived here until her death, after which it became the summer house of J. Malcolm and Alice Bowditch Forbes, who in 1873 commissioned Peabody & Stearns to add a third floor for servants' quarters, and a large carriage house in the rear. Used by the Forbes Family until 1962, the house became a museum after the death of Mary Bowditch Forbes, and is today known as the Captain Forbes House Museum.