{"nrhp_refnum":"11000664","name":"Bullard House","other_names":["Pollard Store","Woodward House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 Woodward Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berlin","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.381756488000065,"lon":-71.63732157999993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A much-expanded, 2 1/2-story wood-frame Federal-style house at 4 Woodward Avenue in the historic center of Berlin, Massachusetts. It began as a small two-story house around 1780 and was enlarged in the 1790s and later; it now serves as a museum.","why_significant":"The building is the first known residence near Berlin's meetinghouse and housed the town's first known store and an early tavern. Its multiple building phases record changing uses over time, including a store, tavern, library meeting place, dwelling, and fire-engine garage. It is also part of a cluster of historic resources at the town center.","narrative":"Standing at the foot of Woodward Avenue in Berlin's historic town center, this long, side-gabled 2 1/2-story house grew out of a small two-story, single-room dwelling built around 1780, probably soon after the first meetinghouse. Within roughly a decade a larger west section was added, with an upstairs ballroom, and a rear leanto extended the original part. Deeds point to the Pollard brothers opening Berlin's first known store on the property before 1792, and the building later served as a tavern. Over the following centuries the Bullard family owned it for more than 120 years, and further leantos, a shed dormer and a fire-engine garage were added or removed. Federal-era trim, framing and an early door survive alongside Greek Revival and twentieth-century changes. The accumulated alterations document the variety of uses that took place inside. Today the house serves as a museum, and a former garage on the lot stores the town historical collection.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently used as a museum; a former garage on the property holds the town historical collection.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.594273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/7973/63797336/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/11000664.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000664/15f21e1d54-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000664/15f21e1d54-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bullard_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:Bullard_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797336","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullard_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4996681"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/bullard-house-11000664/"}