The 1790 House is a historic house located on at 827 Main Street, North Woburn, Massachusetts, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A historic house can be a stately home, the birthplace of a famous person, or a house with an interesting history. ... Woburn is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... The National Register of Historic Places is the USAs official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects worthy of preservation. ...

The Federal style house was originally built in 1790 on the banks of the Middlesex Canal. Shortly before completion it was purchased by Col. Loammi Baldwin, noted engineer, who hoped to convince expatriate scientist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, to return to his home town. Although this idea never came to fruition, author Frances Parkinson Keyes, who later spent childhood summers in the home, refers to it repeatedly in her memoirs as the "Count Rumford House". Federal style can refer to: Federal style architecture Federal style furnishings See also: Georgian architecture, Adam style This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Middlesex Canal was built in the late 18th century to connect the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. ... Colonel Loammi Baldwin was an American politician, engineer, surveyor and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. ... Benjamin Thompson. ... Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885 – 1970) was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. ...

In 1815 Hall Jackson Kelley conducted a private school for boys in the house, and there he first read the newly published Journals of Lewis and Clark. Kelley conceived a passion for the Pacific Northwest and became the prime advocate of the United States settlement of Oregon. He then migrated west to become a legendary "mountain man" and explorer. Hall Jackson Kelley (February 28, 1790-January 17, 1874) was an American settler and writer known for his strong advocacy for U.S. settlement of the Oregon Country in the 1830s. ... The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806) was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. ...