{"nrhp_refnum":"75000267","name":"Angier, John B., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"129 High St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Medford","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42016277700003,"lon":-71.11436353799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Gothic Revival cottage at 129 High Street in Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and built in 1842 for schoolmaster John B. Angier and his wife.","why_significant":"The house is significant as a collaboration between Alexander Jackson Davis and landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing. It is one of a limited number of surviving Davis commissions in Massachusetts. It is also Medford's best example of Gothic Revival domestic architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1842 at 129 High Street in Medford, this Gothic Revival cottage was designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis for John B. Angier, a local schoolmaster, and his wife Abby S. Adams, a granddaughter of President John Adams. The grounds were laid out by Andrew Jackson Downing, though that landscape has since been lost. The masonry house, stuccoed in the early twentieth century, has a T-shaped plan, three steep gables with elaborate bargeboards, a slate roof and a long porch with Gothic tracery. Inside, the original floor plan, wood paneling, carved marble mantelpiece, plaster ceilings and paneled doors survive. Davis's drawings for the house are held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The house is valued as a joint work of two leading Romantic-era designers, as one of few Davis commissions remaining in Massachusetts, and as Medford's finest example of Gothic Revival domestic architecture.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Alexander Jackson Davis (architect) and Andrew Jackson Downing (landscape designer)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a private residence; the interior is generally well preserved, though the original Downing landscape and the Davis-designed furniture are gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.942537-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7959/63795975/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/75000267.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000267/31353bcba5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000267/31353bcba5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MedfordMA_JohnBAngierHouse.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:MedfordMA_JohnBAngierHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795975","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Angier_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715633"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/angier-john-b-house-75000267/"}