Jonathan Fairbanks

This article is about the colonist. For the artist, see Jonathan Leo Fairbanks.
Fairbanks House, ca. 1641, is considered the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America

Jonathan Fairbanks (1594 – December 5, 1668) was an English colonist born in Heptonstall, Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.[1] He immigrated to New England in 1633. Around 1641, Fairbanks built the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, which is today the oldest surviving wood-framed house in North America.

  1. ^ Jacobus, Donald Lines (2001). The American Genealogist Volume 76. D.L. Jacobus. p. 20.