{"nrhp_refnum":"80000456","name":"Wilson, Shoreborne, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ipswich","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.67890208700004,"lon":-70.83680275499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story First Period house at 4 South Main Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts, built between 1685 and 1692 by cooper Shoreborne Wilson. It is now apartments, with a restaurant attached at the rear.","why_significant":"It is a First Period house that keeps most of its original features, notably a chamfered frame and evidence of the size and arrangement of the original casement windows. It is also tied to the early development of Ipswich through Shoreborne Wilson and later owner Col. Samuel Appleton, and it retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.","narrative":"At 4 South Main Street in Ipswich, a 2½-story end-gable house with a center chimney preserves much of its late seventeenth-century character. Shoreborne Wilson, a cooper, bought the lot in 1672 and built the house sometime between 1685 and 1692. Its framing shows the northwest portion to be the oldest. In 1702 Col. Samuel Appleton, a veteran of the Andros Rebellion and the Indian Wars, acquired the property and added the southeast portion. The plan is rectangular and two rooms deep, with a raised rear lean-to and a center entry under a hip-roofed porch. Windows combine eighteenth-century double-hung sash with casements introduced in a 1920 restoration, which also added trim and fireplaces. The house is valued as a First Period building that retains most of its original features, especially its chamfered frame and evidence of the original casement windows. It is used as apartments, with a restaurant attached at the rear.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Shoreborne Wilson (original owner, cooper; built the house)","architectural_style":"First Period","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is apartments, with a restaurant attached to the rear.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:55.058434-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7901/63790188/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000456.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000456/872f9ea858-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000456/872f9ea858-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shoreborne_Wilson_House,_Ipswich_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shoreborne_Wilson_House,_Ipswich_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790188","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreborne_Wilson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7501382"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/wilson-shoreborne-house-80000456/"}