{"nrhp_refnum":"82001952","name":"Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"146 Rindge Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.39293376000006,"lon":-71.13069997899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style farmhouse at 146 Rindge Avenue in Northwest Cambridge, Massachusetts, built about 1792 for Nathaniel Kidder. It is a clapboard house with a double chimney and a garage on the lot.","why_significant":"The form calls it the finest rural vernacular example of the Federal style in Northwest Cambridge and the only pre-nineteenth-century farmhouse there to survive with its original features intact. It is also the only eighteenth-century farmhouse remaining on its original site. The reviewer recommended listing under Criterion C as a rare surviving example.","narrative":"Built around 1792 for Nathaniel Kidder, this farmhouse at 146 Rindge Avenue in Northwest Cambridge is described as the area's finest rural vernacular example of the Federal style. It is also the only farmhouse from before the nineteenth century there to keep its original features intact, and the only eighteenth-century farmhouse still on its original site. The house is set at an angle to the street so the front entrance faces east in the colonial manner. It follows a typical eighteenth-century four-room, center-hall plan, while small second-story windows, short eaves and a sidelight entry show Federal influence. The Kidder family acquired the land in 1706 and kept it until 1835, when it was sold to Solomon Sargent. Sargent sold off farm acreage as building lots in the 1840s, and in 1867 the house and its lot went to Jeremiah McCrehan, whose family held it until the 1940s. It remains a residence today.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Residential use, the same as the original use. Shingles were added in the 1920s and one wall has been restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.810275-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7903/63790379/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82001952.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001952/6ddf259799-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001952/6ddf259799-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan_House,_146_Rindge_Avenue,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4655.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kidder-Sargent-McCrehan_House,_146_Rindge_Avenue,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4655.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790379","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder%E2%80%93Sargent%E2%80%93McCrehan_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6404653"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/kidder-sargent-mccrehan-house-82001952/"}