{"nrhp_refnum":"80000505","name":"Swetland-Pease House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SE of East Longmeadow at 191 Pease Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Longmeadow","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.04396492600006,"lon":-72.49438786699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story timber-frame farmhouse at 191 Pease Road, southeast of East Longmeadow, Hampden County, Massachusetts, built around 1793 and later expanded with two nineteenth-century wings.","why_significant":"It is one of a small number of eighteenth-century houses left in East Longmeadow and an excellent example of Vernacular Federalist architecture. It keeps original features such as its entry, surrounds, mouldings, sash and sandstone foundation facings. Its kitchen fireplace of locally quarried red sandstone is an unusual detail, and the setting remains rural.","narrative":"Set at the base of Spook's Hill on Pease Road in East Longmeadow, this farmhouse dates to about 1793 and is believed to have been built by Benjamin Swetland, a farmer. The two-story timber-frame main house has a central chimney, a red sandstone foundation and a Doric-pilastered entry. One-story and one-and-a-half-story wings were added in the mid or late nineteenth century. Inside, many original features survive, including a kitchen fireplace of locally quarried red sandstone, a detail linked to Connecticut building traditions. The house is valued as one of few eighteenth-century houses left in the town and, with the Elijah Burt House, as its best preserved example of Vernacular Federalist architecture. Later the farm passed to the Pease family; Mervin Henry Pease, born there in 1860, was a teacher, farmer, school committee member and town assessor. Woods and fields still surround the property.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Builder/architect unknown; believed built by Benjamin Swetland, a farmer","architectural_style":"Vernacular/Federalist","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, altered, on its original site, and occupied 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 02:11:54.43294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/63/7951/63795163/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000505.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000505/f30c3286a4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000505/f30c3286a4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EastLongmeadowMA_SwetlandPeaseHouse.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:EastLongmeadowMA_SwetlandPeaseHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795163","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swetland-Pease_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715874"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/swetland-pease-house-80000505/"}