{"nrhp_refnum":"66000782","name":"Parkman, Francis, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"50 Chestnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.35712323900006,"lon":-71.068562875896,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1962-12-29","areas_of_significance":["Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick row house at 50 Chestnut Street in the Beacon Hill section of Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1824. The architect or builder is not known.","why_significant":"The house was the principal residence of the historian Francis Parkman from 1865 until 1893. Most of his multivolume France and England in North America was written there. Stylistically it is also typical of the small brick row houses built on Beacon Hill in the 1820s.","narrative":"Built in 1824 on the south side of Chestnut Street in Boston's Beacon Hill, this three-story brick house is typical of the small row houses constructed in the neighborhood during the 1820s. It rises above a granite-faced basement, with an arched, recessed entrance, a fanlight and sidelights, and incised granite lintels over the windows. Inside are an open stairhall, three major rooms per floor, and a basement kitchen. Historian Francis Parkman lived here from 1865 until 1893, and the third-floor front room served as his study. Working from this home, he wrote most of his multivolume France and England in North America, a series that helped establish him as one of the country's leading historians. The house was divided into four apartments in 1957, but the exterior was left unchanged and original mantels, cornices, plaster medallions and door and window surrounds survive. It is not open to the public.","period_of_significance":"1865-1893","architect_builder":"not known","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition; divided into four apartments in 1957 with the exterior unchanged, and not open to the general public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 01:59:22.922376-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7938/63793885/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/66000782_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000782/3feae8d195-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000782/3feae8d195-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Boston at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ParkmanHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston at en.wikipedia</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:ParkmanHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000130","name":"Beacon Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/beacon-hill-historic-district-66000130/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793885","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Parkman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5482141"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/parkman-francis-house-66000782/"}