{"nrhp_refnum":"80000664","name":"Redman Farm House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Corner of Washington St. and Homans La.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canton","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.19194433800004,"lon":-71.11036590499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style farm house at the corner of Washington Street and Homans Lane in Canton, Massachusetts, built about 1795 or 1796 by a descendant of Robert Redman. It lies within the Blue Hills and Neponset River Reservations multiple resource area.","why_significant":"The farm appears in deeds back to the seventeenth century, and the house keeps Federal mantels, some Federal sash and Greek Revival elements. It gained social and cultural prominence in the mid- to late nineteenth century, when writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich and his family entertained other notable American writers there. The form checks agricultural and architectural themes.","narrative":"Redman Farm House is a clapboard farm house at the corner of Washington Street and Homans Lane in Canton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1795 or 1796 in the Federal style by a descendant of Robert Redman, who first leased the land from the Ponkapoag Indians in 1725. Deeds trace the farm back to the seventeenth century, and its stream, fairly level meadows and good soil made it well suited to agriculture. The house retains several Federal mantels, some Federal sash and other Greek Revival elements, and the interior was altered in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A barn and other outbuildings accompany it. In the mid- to late nineteenth century the farm gained social and cultural prominence when the writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich and his family entertained other notable American writers there. Later the property served as a golf course residence and groundskeeper's home. It is part of the Blue Hills and Neponset River Reservations area and is now vacant.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; built by a descendant of Robert Redman","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is listed as vacant; the property is owned by the Metropolitan District Commission.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.281377-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/7923/63792343/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000664.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000664/5a7661281a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000664/5a7661281a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CantonMA_RedmanFarmHouse.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:CantonMA_RedmanFarmHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792343","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redman_Farm_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7306083"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/redman-farm-house-80000664/"}