{"nrhp_refnum":"01000746","name":"Dewey, Joseph, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"87 S. Maple St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.11183781900007,"lon":-72.76312477299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-07-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story wood-frame Georgian house built about 1735 at 87 South Maple Street in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It was moved about two hundred feet to its present site in 1973 to save it from demolition.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a well-preserved example of a moderately prosperous farmer and miller's home from early eighteenth-century Westfield. It retains rare plank-wall construction and was carefully restored in the 1970s to its original Georgian appearance. It also reflects the Dewey family's milling and farming role on South Maple Street.","narrative":"Built around 1735 on South Maple Street in Westfield, this 2½-story wood-frame house was home to members of the Dewey family, who worked as farmers and millers beside the Little River. It has a side-gable form, a three-bay facade, clapboard siding and simple Georgian details, including a denticulated cornice, pediments over the central door and first-floor windows, and pilasters with rosettes. The house began as a four-room plan and soon gained a rear kitchen, giving it a saltbox profile. Around 1800 it was remodeled in the Federal style, and about the 1930s it became a two-family home. Its earliest walls use an uncommon plank-wall construction. In 1972 the Western Hampden Historical Society acquired the building, and after it was moved in 1973 to avoid demolition, the society restored it to its 18th-century appearance, recovering paneling, fireplaces, a buttery and original paint colors. It now serves as a museum among later apartment and commercial buildings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored in the 1970s to its 18th-century appearance; now used as a museum, with no outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.008379-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7953/63795321/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/01000746.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000746/5fc20290f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000746/5fc20290f2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ashley Roberson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Dewey_House,_Westfield,_Massachusetts.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashley Roberson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Dewey_House,_Westfield,_Massachusetts.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795321","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Dewey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6282622"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/dewey-joseph-house-01000746/"}