{"nrhp_refnum":"82004812","name":"Arden","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"276 N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Andover","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.66815694700006,"lon":-71.14874888499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Arden is a Gothic Revival residential estate at 276 North Main Street in Andover, Massachusetts, built about 1845-47 for manufacturer John Dove. The grounds include a greenhouse, barn, garage and caretaker's house.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house's association with the Dove and Wood families, prominent textile manufacturers. It also treats the house as a major Gothic Revival estate with its outbuildings and landscaped setting intact. A further reason is its link to the architect Theodore Voelkers and the local builder Jacob Chickering. The form says the property retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship and setting.","narrative":"Arden is a Gothic Revival mansion at 276 North Main Street in Andover, built about 1845-47 for John Dove, a Scottish-born machinist who became a flax manufacturer and left a large fortune at his death in 1876. Local craftsman Jacob Chickering built it, and the Boston architect Theodore Voelkers may have designed it. The two-and-a-half-story house has flush boarding, lacy sawn bargeboards with finials, lancet gable windows, label moldings, a polygonal cupola, a columned veranda and a porte cochere. A Gothic greenhouse and barn remain from the original setting. After Dove's daughters died, the property was sold in 1891 to William Wood, founder of the American Woolen Company and planner of Shawsheen Village. The estate was listed for its association with the Dove and Wood manufacturing families, its standing as a notable Gothic Revival estate with intact outbuildings and landscape, and its connection to its designer and builder.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect possibly Theodore Voelkers of Boston; builder Jacob Chickering","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form says the Wood family still owns and occupies the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:58.028346-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7899/63789961/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82004812.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004812/9315a0c401-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004812/9315a0c401-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AndoverMA_Arden.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:AndoverMA_Arden.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789961","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden_(Andover,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4787915"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/arden-82004812/"}