Job Brooks House
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(Concord until 1754), North Great Road
| Job Brooks House | |
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 Job Brooks House | |
 Interactive map of the Job Brooks House area | |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Colonial |
| Location | Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S. (Concord until 1754), North Great Road |
| Coordinates | 42°27′12″N 71°18′19″W / 42.45339°N 71.30534°W |
| Completed | 1740 |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 2 (including the cellar) |
| Design and construction | |
| Main contractor | Job Brooks |
The Job Brooks House is a historic American Revolutionary War site in Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of today's Minute Man National Historic Park.
It is located on North Great Road, just off Battle Road (formerly the Bay Road), about 0.6 miles (0.97 km) west of the contemporary Hartwell Tavern.[1] There are three other Brooks-family houses within a quarter mile — the Samuel Brooks House, the Noah Brooks Tavern and the Joshua Brooks House — hence the area is called Brooks Village.[1]
Job Brooks (1717–1794) and his family lived in the house he built, in 1740, just east of his second cousin Samuel Brooks's house on Concord's Bay Road in Concord. It was located on the border of the town of Lincoln, in an area that had been owned by members of his family since the mid-17th century. By the time of the Revolution, this area was known as Brooks Hill, and the cluster of houses on it Brooks Village.[2]
Brooks was married to Anna Bridge of nearby Lexington, with whom he had three children: Mathew, Asa and Anna.[2]
Job died in 1794, and left the house to Asa.[2]
It was purchased by Minute Man National Historic Park in 1959.[2] Today, the house serves as a storage facility for the Park's archaeological collection of more than a quarter-million artifacts from the early Archaic period through the 20th century.[2]