Nahant Bay

Egg Rock Light was first established in 1856 after a schooner went down with the loss of five lives. The original structure was a lantern on top of a stone dwelling built from granite cut on the island. After the wreck of the schooner Shark the characteristic was changed to fixed red because the captain of the Shark was said to have confused it with Long Island Head Light in Boston Harbor. Following a fire in 1897 it was rebuilt with a square tower attached to the house. The light was operated at reduced intensity during World War I because of concerns over German submarines. It was automated in 1919 when a gas beacon replaced the oil light. The structure was sold for $160 with a clause requiring the purchaser to remove it from the island. While moving the house down to the water, a cable snapped and the house slid into the water. The tower was destroyed in 1927. The island is now a bird sanctuary.

Egg Rock (sometimes called Elephant Rock) in Nahant Bay near Nahant, Massachusetts is a small (3-acre) island at 42.4333°N 70.8978°W / 42.4333; -70.8978. It was formerly the site of a lighthouse known as Egg Rock Light but now is owned by the state of Massachusetts as a bird sanctuary. Egg Rock can be seen clearly from the coasts of Nahant, Swampscott, and Lynn. Egg Rock is the setting for Sylvia Plath's poem "Suicide off Egg Rock", and also appears in her novel, The Bell Jar.

Castle Rock is a barren, uninhabited island located in Nahant Bay in Nahant, Massachusetts.

The Nahant Civic Historic District consists of three civic buildings in the center of Nahant, Massachusetts. The town hall is an H-shaped Colonial Revival structure built in 1912 to a design by the Boston firm of Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul. The library, which stands across the street, was built in 1895 in a Jacobethan (English) Revival style, its exterior made of ashlar granite with sandstone trim. Next to the town hall stands a small commercial block, a two-story Colonial Revival building built around the turn of the 20th century, whose tenants include the local post office.The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

The Henry Cabot Lodge House is a National Historic Landmark at 5 Cliff Street in Nahant, Massachusetts. It was designated as the only known residential building associated with United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924). Lodge was a leading Republican politician who was a longtime associate of President Theodore Roosevelt, and an influential figure who led the successful opposition to the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I.It is unclear exactly when and for whom the Henry Cabot Lodge House was built. It was known to be owned by Lodge's grandfather Henry in 1850, although local historians believe it was built c. 1820 by Lodge's father John. Stylistically the house is unusual for New England, and is based on a type of plantation house popular in the West Indies in the late 19th century. The house was used by the Lodge family as a summer house after the main Lodge residence (since torn down) was built at Nahant's East Point, and both Lodge and his like-named grandson reported spending childhood years at the house. The house was sold out of the Lodge family after the elder Lodge's death.The house is a two-story brick structure measuring about 50 feet (15 m) by 48 feet (15 m), resting on a brick foundation that is set in a low artificial earthen mound. The exterior walls have been stuccoed, and the roof is a low pitch hip roof pierced by four slender chimneys. The building is encircled by a two-story veranda, which is sheltered by the roof and supported by twelve latticework pillars (four at the corners and two additional ones on each side). On the western corner of the first floor the veranda has been closed in to provide a sun room.The house was designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

The New Ocean House was an American hotel located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The hotel was built in 1888 to replace an earlier hotel that had been destroyed by fire. In 1902 it was purchased by Allen Ainslie of the Maplewood Hotel in Bethlehem, New Hampshire and Edward R. Grabow of The Buckminster, who enlarged, renovated, and refurnished the building, which they renamed the New Ocean House. The pair added 50 rooms (34 of which had private bathrooms) to bring the total to 210. The entire first floor was redone and included an elegant rotunda and lobby. Electricity was run throughout the entire building. In 1922, a steel and concrete annex was completed, bringing the total number of rooms to 300. By 1923, the property had grown from 3 acres to 19, was doing $400,000 worth of business annually, and valued at $1.3 million. From 1926 to 1959 the New Ocean House was run by Clement Kennedy, who managed the New Ocean House during the summer and Vinoy Park Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida during the winter.The New Ocean House had a private beach directly in front of the hotel, 25 acres of lawns and gardens, a saltwater swimming pool, tennis courts, and a pitch and putt course. The first floor contained a butcher shop, fish market, barber shop, bakery, drug store, tailor, and laundry. It was a center of social activity on the North Shore, hosting dances, conventions, reunions, concert, vaudeville shows, and tennis tournaments. Rudy Vallée performed at the New Ocean House early in his career.The hotel hosted a number of celebrities, including Will Rogers, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Helen Keller, Faith Baldwin, Alexander Woollcott, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, Babe Ruth, Florence Chadwick, John F. Kennedy, William Jennings Bryan, Henry F. Ashurst, and Carlos P. Romulo. It also served as headquarters for White House staff during Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 stay at nearby White Court, during John Aspinwall Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark's 1938 wedding in Nahant, Massachusetts, and during the 1941 Atlantic Charter conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.In 1959, the hotel was purchased by a group led by Boston industrialist Harold A. Rudnick. In 1965 it was sold to Dr. George Rohrborough.On May 8, 1969, the New Ocean House was destroyed by a fire. There were no guests at the time of the fire and only a clerk and three kitchen workers were in the building when the fire started. The fire started in the rear of the building and the first alarm was struck at 9:53 p.m. The hotel's sprinkler system and misty air helped suppress the fire and firefighters initially thought the fire could be contained. However, intense heat forced them back and the fire spread along the roof to the front of the building. Firefighting efforts were hampered by narrow streets and low water pressure and by 12:30 a.m. the fire had spread across the entire 300-foot front of the building. By 1 am the fire was out of control. Crews from 25 communities fought the blaze, which was not put out until 2:48 p.m. on May 10. No cause was determined, however a hotel spokesperson stated that it may have started in a staging area erected for plumbing work. After the fire, the hotel was replaced by 30 houses in 2 streets. Puritan Rd(where the entrance/lobby was)to Sutton Pl(the middle to back part of the hotel)

East Point Military Reservation was a World War I and World War II coastal defense site located in Nahant, Massachusetts. In 1955–62 it was a Nike missile launch site. In 1967 the site was converted into the Marine Science Center of Northeastern University.

Nahant () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,334 at the 2020 census, which makes it the smallest municipality by population in Essex County. With just 1.0 square mile (2.7 km2) of land area, it is also the smallest municipality by area in the state. It is primarily a residential community. The town is situated on peninsula consisting of two near-islands (known as "Little Nahant" and "Big Nahant" respectively) connected to the mainland by a narrow sandy isthmus traversed by a single causeway known as "Nahant Road". Numerous tourist beaches line the shores, with the most popular being the so-called "Long Beach" and "Short Beach" along the eastern side of the causeway.

Swampscott Fish House is a historic fishing supply storage house off Humphrey Street on Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is the oldest active fish house in the country. The shingle-style house was built in 1896 on land taken by eminent domain. The Fish House consolidated the many fishing structures that stretched along the oceanfront obscuring views of the ocean and subtracting from the area's appeal as a swimming beach. The Fish House is also home to the Swampscott Yacht Club and the Swampscott Sailing Program. The yacht club is refinished with a porch and a bar. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Greenlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 195 Nahant Road in Nahant, Massachusetts. Development of the 5.7-acre (2.3 ha) cemetery was one of the first civic projects of the town of Nahant after its separation from adjacent Lynn in 1853. The cemetery was established in 1856 on two acres (0.81 ha) of land, and has been extended several times to its present size. Its dominant feature is the Ellingwood Chapel, a Gothic Revival structure built in 1920. A 3.9-acre (1.6 ha) portion of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Olmsted Subdivision Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by New Ocean St/Paradise Road, Swampscott Avenue, Redington Street and Burrill Street in Swampscott, Massachusetts. According to the May 2005 Massachusetts Heritage Landscape Inventory Program (Swampscott Reconnaissance Report), “This large residential neighborhood was planned by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. in 1888 at the request of the Swampscott Land Trust. The 130-acre estate had belonged to E. Redington Mudge. Olmsted’s plan with its curvilinear roads layout, traffic islands, entrance parkway, use of the topographic features and fine architecture is remarkably well preserved. The roads and traffic islands are maintained by the town. The shapes have not been altered; however the town has been unable to maintain original plant material. Part of the original plan showed “Overlook Park” with steps leading to it at the end of Monument Avenue. It was never constructed and in its place is a huge house on top of the hill. The original subdivision had 191 lots of varying sizes and shapes.” It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. At the same time, many argue that Olmsted never actually set foot in Swampscott, and the original plan was only for a strip of land that begins roughly at Humphrey Street and concludes where Monument Avenue turns into Walker Road.

Swampscott Town Hall, previously the Elihu Thomson House, is a historic building in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The house was designed by architect James T. Kelley and built in 1889 for the noted inventor, electrical engineer, and industrialist Elihu Thomson (1853-1937). Thomson was, with Edwin J. Houston, co-founder of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company which would later merge with Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric Company to become the General Electric Company. The house was built with an observatory, which no longer exists. It has housed Swampscott town offices since 1944, when it was given to the town by Thomson's heirs. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its association with Thomson.