{"nrhp_refnum":"82004464","name":"Kimball, C. Henry, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"295 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chelsea","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.39963680900007,"lon":-71.03445389899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne style house at 295 Washington Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts, built about 1880 on the northeast corner of Washington and Jefferson Avenues. It was built by C. Henry Kimball, who some sources say also planned it.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an excellent, largely intact example of the Queen Anne style (criterion C). It is also one of the few houses of its architectural quality and interior workmanship surviving in this part of metropolitan Boston. Its builder, C. Henry Kimball, was a businessman and inventor of a railroad-car heating system.","narrative":"Built around 1880 on a corner lot in Chelsea, Massachusetts, this two-and-a-half-story house shows the Queen Anne style in full. It has an irregular plan, round and rectangular bays, a round corner tower with a conical slate roof, and a complex gabled roofline. Materials vary from brick, fieldstone and brownstone at the base to clapboard, glazed brick panels and decorative wood trim above. Inside, the woodwork is notable, including turned newel posts, carved fireplace surrounds, plaster ceilings with fruit and floral patterns, and inlaid wood floors that differ in each room. Some porches have been enclosed, but the house remains largely intact. It was built by C. Henry Kimball, who took over his father's Maine potato business and in 1885 invented a railroad-car heating system for shipping potatoes. He later helped organize an early electric company and the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange. The house is valued mainly as a rare, well-preserved example of its style.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"C. Henry Kimball (builder; some say planner); architect otherwise unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence, divided into three living units; condition listed as excellent and unaltered; formerly used about fifty years as a funeral home.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.248708-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7967/63796754/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82004464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004464/6a240049dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004464/6a240049dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_Henry_Kimball_House_Chelsea_MA_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C_Henry_Kimball_House_Chelsea_MA_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796754","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Henry_Kimball_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5006517"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/kimball-c-henry-house-82004464/"}