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Martin House Inn was built in 1803 by sea
captain and gentleman Nathaniel Sherman
for his bride Hepsabeth. Situated in the heart
of Nantucket’s famed “historic district”, this
resplendent mariner’s mansion will take you
back to a romantic place and time when the
new world was still being discovered and
America was hardly yet a notion. William
Worth, patriarch of one of Nantucket’s founding
families, acquired the land on which Martin
House Inn stands in 1692 from its original
owner, a Nantucket Indian named Wassaqual.
William passed the property to his son Matthew
Worth, who later deeded it to his daughter
Hepsabeth and her newlywed husband Nathaniel
Sherman “in consideration of love and affection,
20 square rods of land, being half my piece of
land at a place [then] called No Headed Hill” at
around the turn of the 19th century.
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Nathaniel and Hepsabeth built their dream
house at 61 Centre Street (then Darling
Street) to raise their six children: Alexander,
William Edwin, Sophia, Frederick, John and
Margaret. After generations of private family
use, the Inn was first opened to the public
in the 1920s as the Wonoma Inn, and in
1941 it became Martin’s Guest House,
blending today as it did then an unsurpassed
combination of sumptuous new world luxury
accommodations with the warm atmosphere,
nostalgic charm and romantic intrigue
of the old world. |
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