{"nrhp_refnum":"83000569","name":"Rock Ridge","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Tyringham Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Monterey","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.18582849450007,"lon":-73.22153660813262,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rock Ridge is a Shingle Style summer estate on Tyringham Road in Monterey, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, built in 1897-98 for Curtis J. Judd of Chicago on an 11-acre site overlooking Lake Garfield.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Rock Ridge is a particularly fine example of a Shingle Style summer house in New England and retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship. It represents the late 19th century estates of southwestern Berkshire County. It is the largest of the Lake Garfield summer homes and the only one designed by a prominent Chicago architectural firm.","narrative":"Rock Ridge is a Shingle Style summer estate on a granite-ridged knoll half a mile north of Monterey village, overlooking Lake Garfield and the Berkshire Hills. Curtis J. Judd, a Chicago executive with the Keeley Company who grew up in nearby Lee, bought the land in 1897 and hired the Chicago firm Patton and Fisher to design the house. The C. R. Brewer Lumber Company of Great Barrington built it, and it was finished in 1898. The 2½ story, eighteen room house combines clapboard, shingles and granite rubblestone beneath a low gambrel roof, with a wide porch and a round stone tower. Its interior retains Flemish oak finishes and original wallpaper. A carriage barn, bath house and firing range platform remain on the grounds. The nomination values the property as the largest and best-designed of the Lake Garfield summer homes, and as an intact example of the small summer estates that made the Berkshires a notable 19th century resort.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Norman Patton, of Patton & Fisher; C. R. Brewer Lumber Company, Great Barrington","architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in good condition; the interior remains essentially intact from construction and the form describes the house as sensitively preserved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.337395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/7941/63794158/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000569.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000569/f7c781bdc7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000569/f7c781bdc7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Zinetv1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Ridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zinetv1</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:Rock_Ridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794158","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ridge_(Monterey,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7354643"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/rock-ridge-83000569/"}