{"nrhp_refnum":"82004962","name":"Ward, Richard, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"71 Lowell St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Andover","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.66801473400005,"lon":-71.15630945399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1½-story Queen Anne style house at 71 Lowell Street in Andover, Massachusetts, built about 1885-88 for milk dealer Richard A. Ward. It is clapboard-sided with a garage as an outbuilding.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Andover's most interesting examples of Queen Anne style applied to middle-class housing, with shifting rooflines, an oriel window, a triangular dormer and decorative shingling. It also represents Victorian middle-class housing in a rural part of town and is related to two older houses, showing cultural change over several centuries. It meets Criteria A and C and retains integrity.","narrative":"This house at 71 Lowell Street in Andover was built around 1885-88 for Richard A. Ward, a milk dealer who ran a milk and dairy business in Lawrence until 1905. Ward placed his family diagonally opposite the older home at 88 Lowell Street, where his parents lived. The 1½-story clapboard house has an irregular, many-gabled form, a facade gable with decorative shingling, a second-story oriel window, and a roofed entry porch with turned posts and a balustrade beneath a triangular dormer. Local documentation describes it as one of the town's most interesting examples of Queen Anne style used for middle-class housing. It also illustrates Victorian suburban living in a rural area and contrasts with the ancient homestead nearby, so the pair shows changing tastes across generations. It was listed under Criteria A and C, with its design, materials, workmanship and setting still intact. It remains a residence today.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:58.012405-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7899/63789945/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82004962.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004962/45716c6ad9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004962/45716c6ad9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AndoverMA_RichardWardHouse.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_RichardWardHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ward_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7329810"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/ward-richard-house-82004962/"}