{"nrhp_refnum":"76001969","name":"Grange, The, (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Codman Farm","See Also:Grange,The"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Codman Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lincoln","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.41607925500006,"lon":-71.32932487139749,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"The Grange Complex is a 34.65-acre country seat in Lincoln, Massachusetts, made up of the Codman Estate (a mansion and four outbuildings) and the adjoining Codman Farm (four buildings). The mansion's earliest section dates from 1735-1741.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the nine buildings are important for architecture, including Federal-period changes to the mansion attributed to Charles Bulfinch and buildings designed by John Hubbard Sturgis and by Snell and Gregerson. It also cites the Russell and Codman families' roles in local and state affairs, a large Codman document collection, the family's furnishings and art, a long-documented agricultural history, and formal landscape features.","narrative":"Set on 34.65 acres in Lincoln, Massachusetts, The Grange was the country seat of the Codman family. It consists of the Codman Estate, with its hilltop mansion, greenhouse, stable and barn, and the adjoining Codman Farm, with a farmhouse and three barns. The mansion began as a two-story clapboard house built between 1735 and 1741 and was more than doubled in size during a Federal-style remodeling in 1797-98 that is attributed to Charles Bulfinch. Boston architect John Hubbard Sturgis altered the house in the 1860s and designed the farmhouse and an 1863 barn. Ogden Codman, Jr., later a Classical Revival architect, grew up here. The property was first the Russell family farm, whose members held colonial and state offices, before the Codmans acquired it in 1790. It also holds about 40,000 family documents, furnishings and art, a documented farming history, and an Italian-style garden built in 1899.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899","architect_builder":"Charles Bulfinch (attributed, Federal-period changes); John Hubbard Sturgis; Snell and Gregerson (stable, c. 1870)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Victorian and Classical Revival features","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and unaltered. The estate is held by a preservation society and the farm by the town. The farm has been reactivated as a community farm.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.444729-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7955/63795548/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/76001969.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795548","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/grange-the-boundary-increase-76001969/"}