{"nrhp_refnum":"78000433","name":"Page, Nathaniel, House","other_names":["The Page Homestead"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"89 Page Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bedford","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.49378219000005,"lon":-71.26274300099993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story, L-plan clapboard farmhouse at 89 Page Road in Bedford, Massachusetts, originally built in 1687 by Nathaniel Page and later reduced in size and moved a short distance west between 1887 and 1891.","why_significant":"The house is considered one of the oldest structures remaining in Bedford. It was owned by eight successive generations of the Page family, who were prominent farmers and town leaders. The family kept the Bedford Flag, regarded as the oldest flag in the United States, which Nathaniel Page carried at Concord in 1775.","narrative":"Built in 1687 by Nathaniel Page, this farmhouse at 89 Page Road is among the oldest surviving buildings in Bedford, Massachusetts. It originally had three ells and an attached barn. Between 1887 and 1891 two large ells were removed and the house was moved several hundred yards west onto a new stone foundation, leaving an L-plan, 2½-story building with red clapboards, white trim and a central hall plan. Inside, it retains old wainscoting, original ceiling beams, gunstock corner posts and two original staircases. The house matters for its link to the Page family, who owned it for eight generations and were respected farmers and town officeholders involved in incorporating Bedford in 1729. The family also kept the Bedford Flag, an English-made banner carried by Cornet Nathaniel Page at Concord's Old North Bridge in 1775 and presented to the town in 1885.","period_of_significance":"1687","architect_builder":"Nathaniel Page","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence; altered by removal of two large ells and relocation in the late 1880s, with the original barn on adjoining land owned by another party.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.533079-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/7960/63796009/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/78000433.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000433/855acffa20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78000433/855acffa20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathaniel_Page_House,_Bedford_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:Nathaniel_Page_House,_Bedford_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796009","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Page_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6969797"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/page-nathaniel-house-78000433/"}