{"nrhp_refnum":"00001272","name":"Norwood-Hyatt House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"704 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gloucester","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.651239073000056,"lon":-70.67349168699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-10-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art","Education","Science"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2 story wood-frame single-family house at 704 Washington Street in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on a 3.5-acre site on the Annisquam River. It may be the remaining core of a c. 1664 house built for mariner Francis Norwood, enlarged in the 18th and early 19th centuries.","why_significant":"The house preserves typical New England building practices of the 18th and 19th centuries, with early framing, plaster, hardware and paneling still intact. It is also tied to scientist Alpheus Hyatt, who bought it in 1879 and ran a seaside laboratory there in 1880, a forerunner of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Its interior also holds decorative paintings by the Hyatt family.","narrative":"Set back from Washington Street on a 3.5-acre point between Lobster and Goose Coves on the Annisquam River, this Gloucester house combines Georgian and Federal features in a shingled, 2 1/2 story frame. Clay plaster, early iron hardware and heavy timbers suggest it grew from a c. 1664 dwelling built for Francis Norwood, a mariner and early settler, though the form says further study is needed. Norwood descendants and relatives owned it until a bank foreclosure in 1879. Audella Hyatt then bought it as a summer home. Her husband, the paleontologist and marine biologist Alpheus Hyatt, ran a seaside laboratory in a first-floor bedroom in 1880, a forerunner of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Hyatt family members left painted decoration on walls and doors. The house is valued for preserving typical building practices of Gloucester's shipbuilding and fishing era and its later summer resort period, and for its link to Hyatt's scientific work.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial: Georgian; Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the form notes no significant alterations since the late 19th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.691351-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7947/63794704/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/00001272.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001272/600b3e8281-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001272/600b3e8281-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norwood-Hyatt_House,_Gloucester_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:Norwood-Hyatt_House,_Gloucester_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794704","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood-Hyatt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7061597"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/norwood-hyatt-house-00001272/"}