{"nrhp_refnum":"74000373","name":"Grange, The","other_names":["See also:Grange, The (Boundary Increase)"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Codman Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincoln","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.417321795500044,"lon":-71.33047808725584,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Agriculture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A sixteen-acre estate on Codman Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts, known as The Grange or the Codman Estate. It has five buildings, led by the Codman Mansion, whose earliest part dates from 1735-1741 and which was federalized in 1797/98.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for architecture, citing the attribution of the mansion's Federal-period changes to Charles Bulfinch and documented design of the c.1870 stable by Snell and Gregerson. It was also the childhood home of architect Ogden Codman, Jr. The form further cites the Codman document collection, the family furnishings and art, the landscape and the 1899 Italian-style garden.","narrative":"The Grange is a sixteen-acre country estate on Codman Road in Lincoln, Massachusetts, once the seat of the Codman family. Its main building, the Codman Mansion, began as a two-story clapboarded house built between 1735 and 1741 and was more than doubled in size in 1797/98, when John Codman had it federalized in a design attributed to Charles Bulfinch. Later work in the 1860s by John Hubbard Sturgis and by Ogden Codman, Jr. added Victorian and Classical Revival features. The grounds also hold a greenhouse, a small house, a stable of about 1870 designed by Snell and Gregerson, and a barn. Listing rested mainly on architecture, along with the family's furnishings, some 40,000 papers, gravel walks, tree-lined avenues and an Italian-style garden built in 1899. Early occupants of what was then the Russell Farm served in local and provincial government. After Dorothy Codman died in 1968, the mansion passed to a preservation society.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles Bulfinch (attributed, Federal-period changes); John Hubbard Sturgis (1860s alterations); Snell and Gregerson (stable, c.1870); Ogden Codman, Jr. (panelling, 1899 garden supervision)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Victorian and Classical Revival features","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good, altered, on its original site. Owned by a preservation society and used as a museum; some garden restoration was under way and a rose garden was neglected.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.400947-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7956/63795648/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/74000373.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000373/53b94f998e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000373/53b94f998e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codman_House,_Lincoln,_Massachusetts.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Codman_House,_Lincoln,_Massachusetts.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795648","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5140311"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/grange-the-74000373/"}