{"nrhp_refnum":"76000267","name":"Durant, Capt. Edward, House","other_names":["Kenrick House","Kendrick House","Durant-Kenrick House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"286 Waverly Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.346246965000034,"lon":-71.18059449599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story gambrel-roofed clapboard house at 286 Waverley Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts, built shortly after 1732 and certainly before 1740 for Captain Edward Durant. The builder is not named.","why_significant":"The house is significant as the home of the wealthy and prominent Edward Durant and as one of the oldest surviving structures in Newton. Its architectural interest lies in its survival, its early four-room plan with central passage, stencil-decorated floors of about 1790, rare window seats and shutters, and a surviving section of original roof.","narrative":"Built soon after Edward Durant bought 91 acres in Newton in 1732, this two-story clapboard house on Waverley Avenue has a gambrel roof, two chimneys and a symmetrical five-bay facade. Durant, a Boston smith called \"Captain\" in public records, died in 1740. His son Edward later housed the town grammar school there and took part in pre-Revolutionary activities, including chairing the Colony's Committee of Correspondence. The Kenrick family, who ran a noted nursery from 1790, owned the house until 1903, after which a Durant bought it back. The house follows an early four-room plan with a central passage. The north front room keeps its 1730s woodwork, window seats and shutters. Four rooms have stencilled floors from about 1790, and part of the original roof survives. It is listed as one of Newton's oldest structures and as the home of a prominent family.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799 and 1800-1899 (specific date c. 1732)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in private ownership and used as a private residence; maintained by the Edward Durant Homestead Trust. Condition is described as good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.660415-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/7960/63796001/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/76000267.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000267/06de902f88-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000267/06de902f88-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NewtonMA_CaptEdwardDurantHouse.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:NewtonMA_CaptEdwardDurantHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capt._Edward_Durant_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5036417"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/durant-capt-edward-house-76000267/"}