{"nrhp_refnum":"74000381","name":"1790 House","other_names":["North Congregational Parish Church"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"827 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woburn","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.50304943100008,"lon":-71.16060454899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-10-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Federal-style mansion at 827 Main Street in Woburn, Massachusetts, built between 1790 and 1800 on a three-acre remnant of an original 80-acre estate. Joseph Bartlett began it and Col. Loammi Baldwin completed it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is primarily significant for its link to Col. Loammi Baldwin, an early American civil engineer who built the Middlesex Canal, and who used it as a social hall. It is also cited as a handsome Federal mansion with a combination of imitation ashlar and clapboards, three pedimented doorways, a rear Palladian window and elaborate interior woodwork and plaster.","narrative":"Standing at 827 Main Street in Woburn, this two-story, hip-roofed Federal mansion was built between 1790 and 1800 on land that once covered 80 acres and now totals three. Joseph Bartlett, one of Woburn's first lawyers, began the frame but never finished it. Col. Loammi Baldwin, a civil engineer behind the Middlesex Canal, bought it and completed it with a second-floor ballroom. He used it as a social hall, hosting a ball in 1800 and a gathering in 1803 marking the canal's opening. The seven-bay house has a two-tiered pedimented porch, imitation ashlar on the facade, clapboards elsewhere, three pedimented doorways, a rear Palladian window and original interior moldings and mantels. Later residents included several ministers, and the novelist Frances Parkinson Keyes visited the Wheeler family here. The North Congregational Church bought the house in 1956 and has used it as a parish house, Bible school and function hall.","period_of_significance":"1790-1800","architect_builder":"Joseph Bartlett (began construction); Col. Loammi Baldwin (completed it)","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by North Congregational Church since 1956 and used at various times as a parish house, Bible school and social function hall; condition listed as fair, with a small rear addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.464614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7959/63795919/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/74000381.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000381/b9fab84679-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000381/b9fab84679-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daderot at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1790_House,_Woburn,_Massachusetts,_Sept._2005.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot at en.wikipedia</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:1790_House,_Woburn,_Massachusetts,_Sept._2005.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795919","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4553354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/1790-house-74000381/"}