{"nrhp_refnum":"10001178","name":"Wilder, Homestead, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Ashfield Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Buckland","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.60049682650006,"lon":-72.77790072401487,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic farmstead on Ashfield Road (Route 112) in Buckland, Franklin County, Massachusetts, centered on a ca. 1775 saltbox house with a barn, a relocated shoe shop, a granite hitching post and open agricultural fields.","why_significant":"The house is a good example of a transitional Georgian/Federal farmhouse in western Massachusetts, with conservative framing and Federal details. The ca. 1775 English barn and surviving fields show how a local farm family worked the land over generations. The relocated early 19th-century shoe shop adds a record of local trades, though it is noncontributing.","narrative":"Set back from Route 112 in Buckland, the Wilder Homestead is a farmstead built around a ca. 1775 house, a barn of similar date, a shoe shop moved to the site in 1991, and a granite hitching post. The house is a 2½-story, center-chimney saltbox with clapboard siding and a slate roof. It combines a Georgian form and small-paned windows with Federal touches, including a tall, narrow door surround, a widely projecting cornice and carved fans on the parlor fireplace. Inside, the post-and-beam frame uses scribe-rule joinery, and wide-board floors and original fireplaces survive. The English-style barn, with its threshing bay, was likely built before 1798 and later extended. Generations of the Wilder family farmed here, raising grains and livestock. The shoe shop was built by shoemaker and farmer Dan Townsley between 1812 and 1820. Surrounding open fields remain in agricultural use and make the farm a landmark along the floodplain. The Buckland Historical Society has owned it since 1981 and operates it as a museum.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian; Early Republic/Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Buckland Historical Society since 1981 and operated as a historic house museum; the fields remain in agricultural use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.807673-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7950/63795066/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/10001178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001178/ee353b650a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001178/ee353b650a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BucklandMA_WilderHomestead.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:BucklandMA_WilderHomestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795066","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wilder_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7774933"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/wilder-homestead-the-10001178/"}