{"nrhp_refnum":"73000308","name":"Suffolk Resolves House","other_names":["Daniel Vose Residence"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1370 Canton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milton","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.23430587400003,"lon":-71.10850628999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wooden clapboard house at 1370 Canton Avenue, Milton, Massachusetts, begun about 1760 as Daniel Vose's store and residence and enlarged by Vose in 1773. It was moved to its present site in 1950 and now operates as a museum.","why_significant":"The house is where the Suffolk County convention met on September 9, 1774, and adopted the Suffolk Resolves, an early organized protest against British colonial policy. The Resolves were endorsed immediately by the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The nomination argues this makes the house a surviving building tied to a key pre-Revolutionary event.","narrative":"Begun around 1760 as the store and home of Milton shopkeeper Daniel Vose, this two-story clapboard house on Canton Avenue was enlarged by Vose in 1773. It has a five-bay facade, a shallow hipped roof, two large interior chimneys, twelve-over-twelve windows and a columned entrance porch. A small glass pane in the clapboards lets visitors see where the 1773 addition joins the earlier section. On September 9, 1774, seventy delegates from nineteen Suffolk County towns and districts met here and accepted the Suffolk Resolves drafted by Dr. Joseph Warren. The nineteen resolutions urged boycotting British trade, raising local troops and preparing for armed resistance if necessary. Paul Revere carried the document to Philadelphia, where the First Continental Congress endorsed it. The house was moved in 1950 to save it from destruction, then restored. The Milton Historical Society now runs it as a museum, and the nomination recognizes its political importance as a surviving site of this pre-Revolutionary event.","period_of_significance":"18th Century; specific date September 9, 1774","architect_builder":"Daniel Vose (built c. 1760; enlarged 1773)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Excellent condition; altered and moved; occupied and operated as a museum by the Milton Historical Society.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.797863-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7964/63796452/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/73000308.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000308/edcec4f06d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000308/edcec4f06d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffolk_Resolves_House_Milton_MA_04.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:Suffolk_Resolves_House_Milton_MA_04.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796452","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_Resolves_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7634583"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/suffolk-resolves-house-73000308/"}