{"nrhp_refnum":"03000684","name":"Flint House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"28 Lexington Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincoln","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42909921900008,"lon":-71.29566516599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame farmhouse at 28 Lexington Road in Lincoln, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with a relocated 18th-century barn, a garage/equipment shed and fieldstone walls on a 1.84-acre parcel. The house combines possible First Period origins with Georgian, Victorian and Colonial Revival changes.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as the homestead of the Flint family, who were prominent farmers and civic leaders in Lincoln from the 17th century onward. Its building evolved from the First Period through the Colonial Revival and keeps framing and finishes from each stage. Surrounding Flint farm buildings and fields still reflect the farm's development through 1900.","narrative":"Set on the west side of Lexington Road just northeast of Lincoln Center, this farmhouse is the surviving core of the Flint family farm, which began with a 300-acre purchase in 1650. The nominated parcel is now 1.84 acres and includes the house, a barn moved to its present spot in 1918, a small garage or equipment shed and sections of fieldstone wall. The house grew in stages. It may contain two separate First Period structures, and an oak post-and-beam frame with an uncommon principal-rafter roof. Georgian paneling survives in the east parlor, a central stairhall dates to about 1859, and a 1901 renovation added a second story over the rear wing and a hipped roof. Generations of Flints lived here, including Ephraim Flint II, a Harvard-educated schoolmaster and town officer, and his son, a Revolutionary War militiaman. Across the road, farm buildings and fields still recall the working farm.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial: Postmedieval English, Georgian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a single-family dwelling; Flint family members still occupy nearby farm properties, and the cowbarn across the road is part of an active cattle operation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.354518-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/7957/63795758/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/03000684.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000684/4f50716f18-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000684/4f50716f18-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flint_House,_Lincoln_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:Flint_House,_Lincoln_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795758","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_House_(Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5459524"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/flint-house-03000684/"}