{"nrhp_refnum":"75000244","name":"Fowle-Reed-Wyman House","other_names":["Belcher House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"64 Old Mystic St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.43189774100006,"lon":-71.15633334799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A frame First Period farmhouse at 64 Old Mystic Street in Arlington, Massachusetts, built about 1706 and expanded later with gambrel additions. It is also known as the Belcher House.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the oldest house in Arlington. It stands on land once part of Squaw Sachem's Farm. Its successive owners, the Fowle, Reed and Wyman families, took part in the town's development and public life.","narrative":"Built around 1706, this five-bay farmhouse at 64 Old Mystic Street in Arlington is described as the oldest house in the town. It has a large central chimney, clapboard siding and a rear lean-to, and later gambrel additions give it an irregular roofline. Inside, exposed summer beams, wide pine floorboards and an early 18th-century kitchen fireplace survive. A 17th-century mantel and paneling, taken from the demolished Pierce House, were installed in the sitting room around 1945. The house stands on part of the former Squaw Sachem's Farm, which passed from her to the Gibbons family and then to the Fowles. John Fowle sold it in 1707 to Daniel Reed, and the Wyman family held it from 1775 for over a century. Several owners served in local offices, and the farm shrank from hundreds of acres to six-tenths of an acre by 1924, when the Belchers bought it.","period_of_significance":"1600-1699, 1700-1799","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial (saltbox)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence in excellent condition, still used as a residence; the original site is unmoved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.694475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/7955/63795576/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/75000244.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000244/1fe705dc50-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000244/1fe705dc50-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArlingtonMA_FowleReedWymanHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArlingtonMA_FowleReedWymanHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795576","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowle-Reed-Wyman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5476386"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/fowle-reed-wyman-house-75000244/"}