{"nrhp_refnum":"01000872","name":"Peabody, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"195-197 Ashmont St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.28536358800005,"lon":-71.06424357099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 3 1/2-story brick apartment building with ground-floor offices at 195-197 Ashmont Street in the Ashmont section of Dorchester, Boston, built in 1896-1897 and designed by Edwin J. Lewis, Jr.","why_significant":"It is an early example of the open-courtyard, brick, Tudoresque apartment house that became common in the early 20th century. It is also tied to Col. Oliver W. Peabody and Mary Lothrop Peabody, who funded All Saints' Church and shaped the development of Ashmont, and to its architect Lewis. It was designed to complement and protect the view of All Saints' Church.","narrative":"Built in 1896-1897 at 195-197 Ashmont Street in Dorchester, this 3 1/2-story brick apartment building wraps around a small raised courtyard and evokes an English manor house. Architect Edwin J. Lewis, Jr. gave it half-timbered dormers, slate roofs with cross gables, tall Jacobean chimney stacks and offices at street level facing Peabody Square. It was commissioned by Col. Oliver W. Peabody, a Kidder, Peabody founder who, with his wife Mary Lothrop Peabody, was a leading benefactor of neighboring All Saints' Church. Design was meant to complement the church rather than obscure it, and the couple also created Peabody Square to protect views of the church. The building is regarded as an early example of the Tudor-style courtyard apartment house in a streetcar suburb. Its fireplaces, oak stair halls and much original trim survive, though some floor plans were altered when units were divided in the 1930s. It still serves residential and business uses.","period_of_significance":"1896-1951","architect_builder":"Edwin J. Lewis, Jr.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as multiple dwellings with business space; some apartments subdivided in the 1930s were recombined in a recent certified rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.251981-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7968/63796827/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/01000872.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000872/7e977abcf8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000872/7e977abcf8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Peabody_Boston_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:The_Peabody_Boston_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peabody","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7756415"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/peabody-the-01000872/"}