The Captain Benjamin Smith House on South Summer Street in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was constructed c.1760 and retains its historical and architectural integrity. Capt. Benjamin Smith (1740-1821) was a military captain who commanded a company of militia on Martha’s Vineyard during the Revolutionary War, after, he served as a County Sheriff and Town Clerk. Captain Smith and his wife, Love (Coffin) Smith, had nine children in this home; with two of their sons becoming sea captains. The property remained a single-family residence until it was purchased in 1938 by the Vineyard Gazette, the first newspaper to be published in Dukes County, beginning in 1846. When the newspaper purchased the building, it constructed a rear addition, seeking to preserve the old home but expand the footprint to increase its operations with editor offices located in the main house and assembling and printing machinery in the addition. The Smith House-Vineyard Gazette Building was later acquired by the Vineyard Trust in 2010 who preserve the building and continue to rent the space to the Gazette. The pre-Revolutionary residence features a five-bay facade, shingle siding,  and lovely historic double-hung windows.