{"nrhp_refnum":"80000655","name":"Brookwood Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"off Hillside Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milton","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.20944003500006,"lon":-71.11099731499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Brookwood Farm is a farm in Milton, Massachusetts, on a private road off Hillside Avenue near the Blue Hills. It has a Cape Cod style farmhouse dating from about 1800 and a barn built in three sections.","why_significant":"The farmhouse and barn, together with the larger Redman Farm to the south, show the levels of agrarian life in the Blue Hills area. Early framing in the barn and re-used timbers in the house cellar suggest that an earlier house or barn may have stood on the site.","narrative":"Brookwood Farm is a working farm in Milton, Massachusetts, reached by a private road off Hillside Avenue in the Blue Hills area. The property includes a Cape Cod style farmhouse built around 1800, with a later ell and two small additions, and a barn built in three sections. Part of the barn has framing that suggests either a late 1600s construction date or the re-use of older material. In the house cellar, old roof timbers with early mortise and tenon joints support the hearths in a large rubble masonry chimney base, hinting that an earlier house once stood here. Much of the early 1800s interior trim survives, including wide plank wainscoting and small fireplaces with simple mantelpieces. Together with the larger and somewhat finer Redman Farm to the south, the farmhouse and barn illustrate the different levels of agrarian life in the Blue Hills area, which is the basis for their listing as part of a larger multiple-resource group.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Cape Cod","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is as a farm; the house was altered around 1940, and all window sash is replacement material.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.566684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7923/63792395/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000655.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000655/006729dfdd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000655/006729dfdd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brookwood_Farm_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:Brookwood_Farm_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792395","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwood_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4975222"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/brookwood-farm-80000655/"}