{"nrhp_refnum":"06000783","name":"Glen Road Historic District","other_names":["Jenningsville"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"233-317 Glen Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Weston","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.32683350000005,"lon":-71.28739793019358,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of about 27 acres along Glen Road in the southeast corner of Weston, Massachusetts, containing 40 buildings, mostly houses and garages dating from 1732 to the 1970s, with most built in the 1920s.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criteria A and C at the local level. It shows how a farm family, the Jennings family, subdivided its land and built middle-class suburban houses as Weston shifted from farm town to suburb. It also holds a cohesive group of early 20th-century houses with consistent plans, setbacks and Colonial Revival and Craftsman detailing, alongside older farmhouses and the remains of a summer hotel.","narrative":"Glen Road in southeast Weston, Massachusetts, is a winding country road lined with a neighborhood of modest, closely related houses. The 27-acre district holds 40 buildings, including 28 contributing residences and five garages. Most are early 20th-century middle-class homes, about half from the 1920s, built in a few repeated plans such as the Four Square, side-gable and Dutch Colonial, with Colonial Revival and Craftsman details. Older buildings include the 1732 Nathaniel Jennison House, moved across the street in 1924, and the Federal-style Pratt/Wyman House of about 1812. A remodeled former Mansard hotel and four small cottages recall a summer hotel complex. The Jennings family, local farmers, subdivided their land and built roughly 18 of the houses, many sold to businessmen and managers who valued the rural setting and the nearby train station. The district reflects Weston's change from farming town to suburb and a consistent collection of early 20th-century domestic architecture.","period_of_significance":"1732-1956","architect_builder":"Warren Jennings (builder of many of the 1920s houses); Jennings family","architectural_style":"Federal; Second Empire (Mansard); Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely unchanged since the 1950s; 33 contributing and 7 noncontributing buildings, in current use as single dwellings and secondary structures; several hotel cottages are noted as needing repair or restoration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.996536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7957/63795742/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06000783.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000783/d2e2930e71-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000783/d2e2930e71-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestonMA_GlenRoadHD.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:WestonMA_GlenRoadHD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795742","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5567999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/glen-road-historic-district-06000783/"}