{"nrhp_refnum":"83000642","name":"Carpenter House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"89 Carpenter St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rehoboth","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.85472503200003,"lon":-71.25414818199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-family Georgian-Federal transitional house at 89 Carpenter Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, dated to 1789 by a brick inscribed in a chimney. It was possibly designed and built by Thomas Carpenter III.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Rehoboth's finest and best-preserved examples of transitional Georgian-Federal architecture. It combines high-style Georgian features with post-Revolutionary Federal details and has a five-room center-entrance plan. It is also tied to the Carpenter family, early settlers of north central Rehoboth.","narrative":"Built in 1789, according to a date inscribed in a chimney brick, this clapboard house at 89 Carpenter Street in Rehoboth was originally a two-family dwelling with bake ovens on each floor. It is considered one of the town's finest and best-preserved transitional Georgian-Federal houses. The front doorway, with its pediment, pilasters and eight-panel door, is relatively high-style Georgian, while the west parlor and upstairs rooms carry Federal details such as fluted chair rails, rope molding and a guilloche frieze. It may have replaced a house from about the 1750s. Thomas Carpenter III, a wealthy Revolutionary War colonel, surveyor and town meeting moderator, is said to have built it, and Carpenter family members owned it until about 1895. The house was divided between two sons in the 1830s and later served as the center of a dairy farmstead. Its intact character and its link between two architectural styles support its listing under criterion C.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Possibly Thomas Carpenter III","architectural_style":"Georgian/Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is residence; the form describes a current careful restoration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.174446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7895/63789569/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000642.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000642/88a6d7bfd1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000642/88a6d7bfd1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RehobothMA_CarpenterHouse.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:RehobothMA_CarpenterHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789569","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_House_(Rehoboth,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5045716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/carpenter-house-83000642/"}