{"nrhp_refnum":"10000413","name":"Butters-Avery House","other_names":["William Butters II House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"165 Chestnut St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilmington","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.53273380400003,"lon":-71.17660506599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, wood-frame saltbox-type house at 165 Chestnut Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts, built around 1720 on a homestead tract granted to William Butters I around 1665, and extensively altered in the mid 19th century.","why_significant":"The house retains an essentially intact early 18th-century timber frame, including a jettied second story and beaded summer beam, hidden within later finishes. It also preserves mid 19th-century alterations made under Alexander P. and Julia Avery, who owned the farm from 1846 to 1898. The nomination links it to the Butters family homestead and to the early history of the Baldwin apple in the area.","narrative":"Built around 1720, this saltbox-type house at 165 Chestnut Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts, sits on what remains of a 100-acre homestead granted to William Butters I around 1665. Later suburban house lots surround it, but the building retains an early 18th-century timber frame concealed beneath later finishes. Studies found a jettied second story, beams with beaded corners, and a one-room-plan-with-lean-to arrangement common in the 17th and early 18th centuries. In the mid 19th century, while owned by Alexander P. and Julia Avery, the front wall was pushed out flush with the upper story, the chimney was moved to the center, and the interior was replastered and reorganized. A 19th-century service ell, probably an older outbuilding moved to the site, was attached to the west side. The Town of Wilmington acquired the property in 2006. The house is valued both for its surviving early frame and for its mid 19th-century alterations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial, Postmedieval English; Mid 19th Century, Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a single-family dwelling; the Town of Wilmington acquired it as a historic property in 2006.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.572302-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7913/63791388/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/10000413.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000413/28299f3bd3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000413/28299f3bd3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilmingtonMA_ButtersAveryHouse.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:WilmingtonMA_ButtersAveryHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791388","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butters-Avery_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15713024"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/butters-avery-house-10000413/"}