{"nrhp_refnum":"72000150","name":"Trinity Rectory","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Clarendon and Newbury Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.351801124000076,"lon":-71.07552407999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-02-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story red brick rectory at the northeast corner of Clarendon and Newbury Streets in Boston, built in 1879 for Trinity Church and designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.","why_significant":"The rectory is the work of H. H. Richardson and is a typical example of his Richardsonian Romanesque style. It was the first in a series of fine houses he designed in the 1880s and is described as the best of his Back Bay dwellings. It also reflects the friendship between Richardson and Trinity's rector, Phillips Brooks.","narrative":"Standing at the northeast corner of Clarendon and Newbury Streets in Boston's Back Bay, this three-story red brick house was built in 1879 as the rectory for Trinity Church. Henry Hobson Richardson designed it for Phillips Brooks, the church's rector, who later became sixth Bishop of Massachusetts. The two had become close friends while Trinity Church was being built. The house shows the Richardsonian Romanesque style through its deeply recessed entrance beneath a broad brownstone arch, irregularly placed windows, decorative cut-brick panels and brownstone string courses. Its bricks came from the North Cambridge brickyard that also supplied Richardson's Sever Hall at Harvard. A scholar quoted in the nomination calls it the best of Richardson's Back Bay dwellings, and it opened a series of notable houses he designed in the 1880s. A third floor was added in 1893, repeating the design of the second story, and the roof was rebuilt as accurately as possible.","period_of_significance":"1879-1880","architect_builder":"Henry Hobson Richardson","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition and altered; a third floor was added in 1893 and preservation work was in progress. Owned by Trinity Church and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.099423-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/83/7969/63796983/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/72000150.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000150/9e7c5a07df-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000150/9e7c5a07df-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Swampyank at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Rectory_Boston_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Swampyank at English 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:Trinity_Rectory_Boston_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"73001948","name":"Back Bay Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/back-bay-historic-district-73001948/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796983","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Rectory","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7842941"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/trinity-rectory-72000150/"}