{"nrhp_refnum":"77000178","name":"Sherburne, Warren E., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11 Percy Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lexington","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.44221452700003,"lon":-71.21966794599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story, hip-roofed, white clapboard private house at 11 Percy Road in Lexington, Massachusetts, designed by Boston architect Samuel D. Kelly and built in 1893, with a clapboard garage to the north.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest of the few remaining examples of its type in Lexington. It was built for glass manufacturer Warren Sherburne, whose business is reflected in the generous use of curved glass panes. It also shows the late nineteenth-century blend of Queen Anne massing with Colonial Revival decoration, and survives from an era when most comparable estates were lost to fire or demolition.","narrative":"Built in 1893 at 11 Percy Road in Lexington, this 2½-story clapboard house was designed by Boston architect Samuel D. Kelly for Warren Sherburne, owner of a prosperous glass-making company. The hip-roofed house has irregular massing, a bracketed cornice, conical-roofed bays, a barrel-vaulted entrance portico and carved garlands. Curved glass panes and stained glass reflect the owner's trade. Inside, a Queen Anne living-hall with inglenook and carved stairs sits alongside Colonial-inspired fireplace garlands and molded plaster walls. Kelly, who had earlier designed the Sherburne family home on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, worked in the eclectic manner of the late nineteenth century. The house was listed because it is among the finest of the few survivors in Lexington of the large country houses built by early commuters from Boston. Most of its contemporaries were lost to fire or demolition. A garage stands to the north on about an acre of landscaped grounds.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Samuel D. Kelley (Kelly), architect of Boston","architectural_style":"Eclectic, combining Queen Anne massing with Colonial Revival decorative detail","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unaltered, on its original site, and used as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.632865-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7956/63795614/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/77000178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000178/a278ada974-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000178/a278ada974-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warren_E._Sherburne_House,_Lexington_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warren_E._Sherburne_House,_Lexington_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795614","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_E._Sherburne_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715985"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/sherburne-warren-e-house-77000178/"}