Balcony House, Nassau

One of the oldest wooden residences in the Bahamian capital, an eighteenth-century two-storey house named for the overhanging balcony that shades its street front. Built of American soft cedar with mortise-and-tenon joinery, it survives as a rare example of early colonial domestic architecture in Nassau. Restored and furnished with period antiques, it operates as a house museum interpreting the daily life of the town's earlier inhabitants. An interior staircase salvaged from a ship is among its distinctive features.