William and Jane Phinney House

Barnstable, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The William and Jane Phinney House stands in the Centerville area of Barnstable, Massachusetts, as the oldest surviving house in the village. Originally built around 1659 and later enlarged to a three-quarter cape in 1715, the structure exemplifies early Cape Cod domestic architecture and retains a rare surviving example of a bowed roof, a distinctive regional variation characteristic of the area's building traditions. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.