{"nrhp_refnum":"82001977","name":"Slowey, Patrick, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"73 Bolton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.39021123300006,"lon":-71.13182265099994,"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 single-story frame workers cottage on a high basement at 73 Bolton Street in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1852 for Patrick Slowey, a laborer. Architect is unknown.","why_significant":"It is considered the best example in Northwest Cambridge of an original workers cottage and the only one retaining its original siding and shutters. It represents a housing type that may be unique to North Cambridge and is the only one in unchanged condition. The reviewer recommended listing under Criterion C as an important remaining example.","narrative":"The house at 73 Bolton Street in North Cambridge was built in 1852 for Patrick Slowey, a laborer. It is a single-story wood-frame cottage raised on a high basement, designed in a transitional style that blends Greek Revival and bracketed Italianate features. Details include a projecting cornice from the 1850s, a simple pendent hood added around the 1860s, and original clapboard siding. The building sits about six feet from the street on a lot with roughly 44 feet of frontage. Local surveyors regarded it as a typical North Cambridge workers cottage and the best surviving example in Northwest Cambridge of that original housing type. It is the only one of its kind to keep its original siding and shutters, and it is described as unaltered and unmoved. Because the type may be unique to North Cambridge and this is the only example in unchanged condition, it was recognized as an important remaining example of modest nineteenth-century working-class housing. It remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival/Italian Bracketed (transitional Greek Revival-Bracketed Italianate)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form states the building is unaltered and has not been moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.38551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/7905/63790544/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82001977.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001977/e500c9d1e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001977/e500c9d1e7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CambridgeMA_71BoltonStreet.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:CambridgeMA_71BoltonStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790544","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Slowey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7147655"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/slowey-patrick-house-82001977/"}