{"nrhp_refnum":"08000530","name":"Sea Call Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"82 Tonset Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Orleans","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.78756292700007,"lon":-69.98068143292221,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sea Call Farm is a 6.35-acre former farm at 82 Tonset Road in Orleans, Massachusetts, on Town Cove. It includes a 1920s Craftsman-style farmhouse, a garage with attached shed, a greenhouse foundation, a burning pit and farm landscape features.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as a well-documented example of a small Cape Cod farm developed in the 1920s and 1930s by William A. Fiske and his wife Bertha. Fiske's surviving essays, letters and diaries, together with original house specifications, describe the farm's crops, buildings and daily life. The property also retains open farmland and rural character in a neighborhood that has since been heavily subdivided.","narrative":"Sea Call Farm is a 6.35-acre property on Tonset Road in Orleans, Massachusetts, running down to Town Cove. William A. Fiske and his wife Bertha acquired the land in the 1920s, and the farm was actively worked from about 1931 until 1950. Its centerpiece is a 1½-story Craftsman-style farmhouse designed by Hartford architect E. M. Stone and completed in 1922, with full-length glazed verandahs and a gambrel roof added in the early 1930s. A garage with attached shed, a greenhouse foundation, a fieldstone burning pit, a stone wall, a spruce windbreak planted in 1928, a meadow and orchard remnants complete the farm. Fiske's essays, letters and diaries, along with surviving construction specifications, record the crops, repairs and everyday life at the farm. The Town of Orleans bought the property in 1987 for conservation, and restoration has since repaired the house and revived community gardens.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect E. M. Stone of Hartford; general contractor E. W. Perry; foundation work by Darling","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Town of Orleans acquired the farm in 1987 for conservation. The house was restored from 1989 and again in 2005-2007, and community gardens now operate on the property. The greenhouse roof was removed in 2006, and restoration is planned.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.567523-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7939/63793954/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/08000530.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000530/ce22cf6a58-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000530/ce22cf6a58-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerry Johnson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Farm_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerry Johnson</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:The_Farm_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793954","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Call_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7439852"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/sea-call-farm-08000530/"}