{"nrhp_refnum":"00000686","name":"Hubbard-French District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"324 and 342 Sudbury Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Concord","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.45148845800003,"lon":-71.35935148699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Community Planning and Development","Literature"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3.4-acre historic district at 324 and 342 Sudbury Road in Concord, Massachusetts, made up of three parcels left from the Hubbard/French family farm, including a 1787-88 Georgian farmhouse and an 1879 Queen Anne artist's studio.","why_significant":"The district is tied to sculptor Daniel Chester French, whose family owned the farm and who had a summer studio here from 1879. It also preserves a late-Georgian farmhouse, a Judge Henry French-era farm landscape with Centennial Pines, and later artistic and landscape work by Mary Ogden Abbott.","narrative":"Set on Sudbury Road in Concord, this small district preserves part of a farm that shaped the Hubbardville neighborhood from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth. Its centerpiece is a hip-roofed Georgian farmhouse built in 1787-88 for Thomas Hubbard Jr., with quoins, a dentiled cornice and paneled interiors. Next door stands the 1879 Queen Anne studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French, whose father, Judge Henry French, bought the farm and updated the house. The Judge also planted rows of Centennial Pines in 1875. Later owner Mary Ogden Abbott added a long north wing, a picket fence and garden sculpture in the twentieth century. A granite and fieldstone root cellar, with iron reliefs made by the young French on its door, is the earliest known outbuilding. The district was listed because of its link to French, one of the leading American public sculptors, and for its layered architecture and landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Possibly Reuben Duren (attribution of the 1787-88 house is speculative); Daniel Chester French (studio, 1879)","architectural_style":"Colonial: Georgian; Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both the house and studio remain in use; the 1930s-era barn/studio is being renovated. Current functions are single dwelling and artist's studio.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.258266-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7956/63795650/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/00000686.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000686/5635e5aa1e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000686/5635e5aa1e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Hubbard_House,_Concord_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Hubbard_House,_Concord_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795650","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbard-French_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5926791"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hubbard-french-district-00000686/"}