{"nrhp_refnum":"06000128","name":"Bradford House","other_names":["Major John Bradford House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"50 Landing Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":41.98803005000008,"lon":-70.72359310799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, center-chimney saltbox house at 50 Landing Road in Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, built around 1714 according to dendrochronology and doubled in size about 1750. It sits on a 1.4-acre lot above the Jones River.","why_significant":"The house is an example of early southeastern Massachusetts domestic architecture. Its plank-frame construction and First Period details survive in the west section, and it shows 18th-century expansion into a center-chimney plan. It is also significant for its 1921 restoration under George Francis Dow and its long preservation by the Jones River Village Club.","narrative":"Bradford House, also called the Major John Bradford House, is a two-story saltbox on a rise above the Jones River in Kingston, Massachusetts. Long thought to date from the 1670s or 1680s, it has been dated by tree-ring analysis to 1714. The original west section is a plank-frame structure with chamfered timbers in the First Period tradition. About 1750 the house was doubled in size to the east around the chimney, creating a center-chimney plan with raised paneling and plastered rooms. In the 19th century it was divided into two apartments and used as rental housing. Concern for its future led to purchases by preservation-minded owners, and in 1921 the Jones River Village Club bought it and had George Francis Dow restore it, removing later material and exposing early fabric. The property now operates as a museum with an herb garden and a relocated English barn. It is valued as a well-preserved early house of southeastern Massachusetts.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George Francis Dow (1921 restoration)","architectural_style":"Colonial; Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated as a museum; the surviving fabric is described as in good condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.788728-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7964/63796493/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06000128.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000128/0cce989914-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000128/0cce989914-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_House,_Kingston_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:Bradford_House,_Kingston_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796493","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_House_(Kingston,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4954700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/bradford-house-06000128/"}