Nantucket -- Before we get too far, I didn't want to create the impression that Nantucket (perhaps the country's largest historical district) was made primarily of Federalist brick buildings. This home is much more typical with its clapboard front (we'll talk about the sides a little later.)Standing at 99 Main Street, it is much more typical Nantucket riche. Built in 1799, the 1832 remodeling (4 years before the brick buildings of mason Christopher Capen) shows its Federal features such as the fanlight above a central doorway underneath a tripartite 2nd story window, shutters, a balustrade on the roofline, and a widow's walk at the roof peak. (These people would not need a widow's walk where the women would look for their husband's ship to return. They didn't sail. Current thinking is that this balcony was really to allow chimney fires to be safely extinguished as sand buckets would be kept there.)This home is the Thomas Macy House, another household name from Nantucket.
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