{"nrhp_refnum":"73000290","name":"Barrett, Col. James, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"448 Barrett's Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Concord","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.47293052500004,"lon":-71.38082567899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse and six-acre working farm at 448 Barrett's Mill Road, Concord, Massachusetts, about two miles from Concord Center. The house began in 1705 and was expanded and altered through the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The farm was the home of Colonel James Barrett, a Revolutionary War patriot who commanded the local militia and stored military supplies on the property. The British march on Concord on April 19, 1775 aimed partly to arrest him and search his farm. The house also illustrates New England farmhouse development from 1705 through the nineteenth century.","narrative":"This farm at 448 Barrett's Mill Road in Concord centers on a two-and-one-half-story frame farmhouse that grew in stages. The eastern end dates from 1705 as a one-room, one-story house. About 1720 the western end was built and a second story added, producing a five-bay facade with a center entrance and large central chimney. A three-story wing followed around 1760, and a woodshed wing was added in the mid-nineteenth century. Late nineteenth-century changes included enlarged windows, a bracketed door hood and new clapboards. Inside, the 1720 paneling and featheredge stair sheathing survive. The property was the home of Colonel James Barrett, who commanded the militia and stored powder, flour and cannon on his land for the Committee of Public Safety. The British march of April 19, 1775 sought him and the supplies, but the arms had been moved and he was at the North Bridge. The farm passed from father to son until 1894. Six acres remain in farming, with fields and eighteenth-century fieldstone walls.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by Colonel Barrett's father in 1705; no architect named","architectural_style":"Typical New England farmhouse","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence on a working farm; condition listed as fair and altered; the two detached barns and the woodshed wing are in poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.165307-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7958/63795853/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/73000290.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000290/6f0281a018-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000290/6f0281a018-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Historical Perspective","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colonel_James_Barrett_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Historical Perspective</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:Colonel_James_Barrett_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795853","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col._James_Barrett_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5141768"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/barrett-col-james-farm-73000290/"}