{"nrhp_refnum":"82004434","name":"Harlow, Sgt. William, Family Homestead","other_names":["Harlow-Holmes House","Kendall-Holmes House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8 Winter St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Plymouth","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":41.95168228800003,"lon":-70.65372097499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame house at 8 Winter Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts, near Plymouth Harbor. It has a 1 1/2 story gambrel main section (ca. 1750-1770) and a 2 story flat-roofed ell added ca. 1860-1870, on a site first built on by Sgt. William Harlow in the mid-17th century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent example of early wood-frame, gambrel-roofed construction, meeting Criterion C. Its growth from a smaller house to one more than twice the size reflects one family's changing needs and fortunes, making it an architectural and social document. The site, occupied since the mid-17th century, may also hold archaeological evidence of early Plymouth County domestic life.","narrative":"Set on a gentle slope about 300 feet from Plymouth Harbor, this wood-frame house at 8 Winter Street grew in stages. The main block is a five-bay, 1 1/2 story gambrel dating to about 1750-1770, with a center chimney and a later two-story ell from the 1860s or 1870s. The eastern half of the gambrel is earlier than the western half, which roughly doubled the house with a parlor, dining room and two chambers above. Records indicate Sgt. William Harlow built a house here around 1653, and ten generations of his family lived on the site until 1979. Examination of the present structure found no details earlier than about 1750, so the existing building likely replaced Harlow's original dwelling. It was listed as an excellent example of early gambrel-roofed framing and as a record of one family's growing needs. The long-occupied site may also contain archaeological evidence of seventeenth-century house forms and daily life in Plymouth County.","period_of_significance":"1750-1770 (possibly 1653)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Period (or perhaps earlier) wood-frame gambrel-roofed dwelling","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and occupied as a private residence; it was formerly a family homestead museum in the mid-twentieth century, and the family sold it in 1979.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.895314-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7964/63796475/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82004434.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004434/0de0e1b493-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004434/0de0e1b493-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sgt._William_Harlow_Family_Homestead,_Plymouth_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sgt._William_Harlow_Family_Homestead,_Plymouth_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796475","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._William_Harlow_Family_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7459790"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/harlow-sgt-william-family-homestead-82004434/"}