{"nrhp_refnum":"02000903","name":"Jarves, John and Mary Waterman, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 Jarves St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sandwich","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.75831999800005,"lon":-70.49561512299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, wood-framed Italianate (Italian Villa) single-family house at 3 Jarves Street in the center of Sandwich Village, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, built in 1857 for glassmaker John W. Jarves and his wife Mary Waterman Jarves, on a 3.0-acre landscaped property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is the only important surviving building in Sandwich tied to the rise of the Sandwich glass industry, whose factories were torn down in the early 20th century. It is also a well-preserved example of Italian Villa architecture with its associated landscape. It is a rare early work of Boston architect Charles Kirk Kirby.","narrative":"Built in 1857 at 3 Jarves Street in the center of Sandwich Village, this Italian Villa house was the home of glass manufacturer John W. Jarves and his wife Mary Waterman Jarves. It is a braced timber-framed house of two and a half stories with a low-pitched side-gabled roof, a shallow centered gable, a full-width porch, paired brackets, and a Palladian window. Inside, it retains original hot-air heating, Sandwich glass door knobs and marble fireplaces. A large ginkgo tree, likely planted when the house was built, anchors the landscaped grounds. Jarves, son of Deming Jarves, founded the Cape Cod Glass Works, and the house hosted glass company meetings before his death in 1863. Because the Sandwich glass factories were demolished early in the 20th century, the house is the main surviving building linked to that industry. It is also an early surviving work of Boston architect Charles Kirk Kirby and is said to be the only centered-gable Italian Villa on Cape Cod.","period_of_significance":"1857-1952","architect_builder":"Charles Kirk Kirby (architect); Gustavus Howland, master carpenter","architectural_style":"Italianate (Italian Villa)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as carefully maintained and in excellent condition, with the exterior and interior little changed since 1857; currently a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.798108-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7939/63793950/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/02000903.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000903/f5e5422c61-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000903/f5e5422c61-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RadPal","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_and_Mary_Waterman_Jarves_House_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RadPal</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:John_and_Mary_Waterman_Jarves_House_02.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"10000787","name":"Jarvesville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/jarvesville-historic-district-10000787/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793950","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Mary_Waterman_Jarves_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6265425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/jarves-john-and-mary-waterman-house-02000903/"}