{"nrhp_refnum":"83000660","name":"Cushing, Caleb, House and Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"186 Pine St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rehoboth","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.85127280100005,"lon":-71.28751426999997,"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 farm complex at 186 and 188 Pine Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, made up of a Georgian farmhouse built about 1740-1770 and a Greek Revival cottage dated 1836, together on about four acres.","why_significant":"The 1836 cottage is described as one of Rehoboth's best preserved transitional Federal-Greek Revival cottages, meeting criterion C. The older house is a good example of a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed house with little post-Revolutionary detailing, and the farmstead is remarkably intact. The farm was established in the mid-18th century and stayed in the Cushing family into the 20th century.","narrative":"Two houses on Pine Street in Rehoboth make up the Caleb Cushing farm. The older, a Georgian farmhouse built between about 1740 and 1770, is a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed building with little post-Revolutionary detailing. It was abandoned for about seventy-five years before being restored around 1930, and it keeps original mantels, dado and some interior doors. The second house, dated 1836 by a carved rafter, is a five-bay by three-bay center-chimney cottage with a trabeated entrance and gable dormers, regarded as one of the town's best preserved transitional Federal-Greek Revival cottages. Tradition holds that it was built for a maiden aunt after a family conflict. Joseah Cushing established the farm around 1750, and it passed through David, Caleb and Edwin F. Cushing, who expanded the poultry and dairy business. The farm is valued for its architecture and for preserving the look of an 18th and 19th century farmstead.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian (c. 1740-1770 farmhouse); Greek Revival, transitional Federal-Greek Revival (1836 cottage)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Both houses are in present residential use. The older house was abandoned for about seventy-five years before being restored around 1930. The barn has been drastically altered and is not included in the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.550511-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/7895/63789581/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000660.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000660/a467aab0a7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000660/a467aab0a7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caleb_Cushing_House,_Rehoboth_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caleb_Cushing_House,_Rehoboth_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789581","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb_Cushing_House_and_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5019229"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/cushing-caleb-house-and-farm-83000660/"}