{"nrhp_refnum":"80001681","name":"Maples Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"155 Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westborough","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.285822894000034,"lon":-71.62676346599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story clapboard house of transitional Federal/Greek Revival design on Oak Street in Westborough (Shrewsbury vicinity), Massachusetts, built 1830-1832 by William White on the foundation of an earlier house.","why_significant":"It is an example of transitional Federal/Greek Revival architecture and an important reminder of Westborough's prosperity after the Boston-Worcester Turnpike opened in 1810, before the 1834 railroad shifted the town center. It also shows the turnpike's regional impact on communities along its route. The site dates to 1725, when Ebenezer Parkman, the town's first minister, built a house there.","narrative":"Maples Cottage is a two-story clapboard house on a rise near the junction of Park and Oak Streets in Westborough. Built between 1830 and 1832 by William White, it stands on the foundation of a house erected in 1725 by Ebenezer Parkman, the town's first minister, and reportedly reuses salvaged materials. The rectangular front section has a low hip roof, a Doric entrance, corner pilasters with triglyphs and a one-story columned porch, blending Federal form with early Greek Revival detail. Later changes include oversized first-story windows and double front doors, added around 1860. In 1884 the Commonwealth bought the property for the Lyman School, a reformatory for boys, and the house served as a staff residence until the mid-twentieth century. It is now vacant. The house is valued as a surviving example of the prosperity the Boston-Worcester Turnpike brought to Westborough before the railroad of 1834 moved the town center southward.","period_of_significance":"1830-1832","architect_builder":"Builder unknown","architectural_style":"Transitional Federal/Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant at the time of nomination; condition rated fair. Formerly a staff residence for the Lyman School, owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.319277-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7974/63797490/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80001681.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001681/570876bf51-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80001681/570876bf51-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestboroughMA_MaplesCottage.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:WestboroughMA_MaplesCottage.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94000693","name":"Lyman School for Boys","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/lyman-school-for-boys-94000693/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797490","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maples_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6754045"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/maples-cottage-80001681/"}