{"nrhp_refnum":"66000128","name":"Adams, John Quincy, Birthplace","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"141 Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.239331201000056,"lon":-71.00358579680754,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-12-19","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame and clapboard \"salt-box\" house at 141 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, with its main portion built in 1716 and possibly incorporating parts of an earlier dwelling from about 1663. It stands beside the John Adams Birthplace on the same city-owned property.","why_significant":"The house was home to two American Presidents and the birthplace of John Quincy Adams, sixth President, born there in 1767. John Adams owned it from 1761 to 1803 and drafted the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 in its old kitchen, which served as his law office. The nomination also stresses John Quincy Adams's long diplomatic and political career.","narrative":"This salt-box house at 141 Franklin Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, was the birthplace of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, born in the north chamber in 1767. The main part of the frame and clapboard building dates to 1716, and it may incorporate the chimney stack and foundation of a smaller house built about 1663. The lean-to was added before Deacon John Adams bought the property in 1744. His son John Adams, later second President, owned the house from 1761 to 1803 and used the old kitchen as a law office, where he prepared the draft of the Massachusetts Constitution ratified in 1780. John Quincy Adams bought the house in 1803 and lived there from 1805 to 1807. The Adams family deeded it to the City of Quincy in 1940. Restoration in 1896 prepared it for the Quincy Historical Society, which still administers it as a museum alongside the neighboring John Adams Birthplace.","period_of_significance":"Specific dates 1716; 1761-83; 1803-07","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Salt-box type frame house","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Quincy and administered by the Quincy Historical Society as a museum; condition listed as good and open to the public seasonally.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 01:58:21.802514-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/7938/63793809/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/66000128_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000128/8a41362722-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000128/8a41362722-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"National Park Service","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Across_the_street_from_the_JQA_Birthplace.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">National Park Service</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Across_the_street_from_the_JQA_Birthplace.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793809","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams_Birthplace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715643"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/adams-john-quincy-birthplace-66000128/"}