{"nrhp_refnum":"66000653","name":"Garrison, William Lloyd, House","other_names":["Rockledge","St. Monica's Home"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"125 Highland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.325942056500054,"lon":-71.09383710644379,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1965-06-23","areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A modest 2-story wooden frame house at 125 Highland Street in the Roxbury district of Boston, Massachusetts, dating from the mid-19th century, builder and architect not known. Originally called \"Rockledge,\" it was the home of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.","why_significant":"Garrison lived here from 1864 until his death in 1879. He was described as the most articulate and influential advocate of abolitionism in the United States, and he founded the Liberator newspaper in 1831. The house is significant for its association with him and his continuing reform work after the Civil War.","narrative":"This frame house on a rock ledge above Highland Street in Roxbury, Boston, was the home of William Lloyd Garrison from 1864 until his death in 1879. Originally named \"Rockledge,\" it dates from the mid-19th century and began as a typical upper-middle-class suburban residence with a 2-story main block, a wing, and an ell. Garrison, the founder of the Liberator in 1831, argued for immediate emancipation and spent his later years here campaigning for prohibition, women's rights, and justice for American Indians. A group of black men and women, the Rockledge Association, maintained the house for a time. In 1904 the Episcopal Sisters of the Society of St. Margaret acquired it, and it became St. Monica's Home, a nursing facility. Over time the quoins were removed, siding was added, and a mansard-roofed section and a brick addition were built, but the basic massing remains and enough original detail survives to suggest its 19th-century character.","period_of_significance":"1864-1879","architect_builder":"not known","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated as St. Monica's Home, a nursing facility for needy elderly women, and not open to the public. The exterior and interior have been altered, and a brick addition was built in 1961-63.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 01:58:54.65992-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7939/63793903/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/66000653_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000653/682d4a96d3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000653/682d4a96d3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BostonMA_WilliamLloydGarrisonHouse.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:BostonMA_WilliamLloydGarrisonHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"89000147","name":"Roxbury Highlands Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/roxbury-highlands-historic-district-89000147/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793903","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8014641"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/garrison-william-lloyd-house-66000653/"}