{"nrhp_refnum":"05000466","name":"Sweetser, Warren, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"90 Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoneham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.477502636000054,"lon":-71.09610026599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Greek Revival house built in 1842 for Warren Sweetser, originally on Main Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and moved about 1,500 feet to 90 Franklin Street at Dale Court in 2003.","why_significant":"Considered Stoneham's finest remaining Greek Revival house, it has a temple-form facade with an enclosed pediment, corner pilasters and an Ionic porch. Its interior keeps both 1842 woodwork and elaborate Queen Anne and Colonial Revival work from the 1890s. It was relisted individually under Criterion C at the local level after being moved to avoid demolition.","narrative":"Built in 1842 for Warren Sweetser, a Stoneham businessman and twice postmaster, this Greek Revival house is regarded locally as the town's finest surviving example of the style. Its gable end faces the street in a temple form, with a fully enclosed pediment, corner pilasters, a deep entablature and a porch on Ionic columns. Around 1890 the house was converted to two apartments, adding a stair tower, Colonial Revival dormers and Queen Anne woodwork with stained glass, while much of the 1842 detail remained. Once surrounded by commercial buildings on Main Street, it was threatened with demolition after a developer bought the lot in 1999. A local preservationist moved it, first to a temporary site and in 2003 to 90 Franklin Street, where it sits among nineteenth-century houses. A rear service wing was removed, and the house was rehabilitated. It qualifies for its architecture at the local level, with the move noted as a special consideration.","period_of_significance":"1842-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Moved in 2003 to avoid demolition and rehabilitated to the Secretary of the Interior's Standards; current function is multiple dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.601175-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7908/63790856/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/05000466.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000466/22adda4a4d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000466/22adda4a4d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StonehamMA_WarrenSweetserHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StonehamMA_WarrenSweetserHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790856","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Sweetser_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970513"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/sweetser-warren-house-05000466/"}