{"nrhp_refnum":"83000666","name":"Elm Cottage/Blanding Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"103 Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rehoboth","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.83824592100004,"lon":-71.2904654781083,"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 Federal-style farmhouse and working farm complex at 103 Broad Street, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, built about 1800 and known locally as Elm Cottage or Blanding Farm. It sits on roughly 80 acres and includes barns and other outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house and farm show almost no significant change after 1875 and form an exceptional record of 19th-century farming technology and rural life. It is also tied to the prominent Blanding family. The large stone wagon barn is described as the biggest of five stone-walled buildings in Rehoboth, and the farm keeps its historic configuration and open pasture.","narrative":"Elm Cottage, also called Blanding Farm, is a farmhouse and working farm complex on Broad Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The two-story, five-bay Federal house dates to about 1800 and faces north, set some 200 feet back from the road. A one-and-one-half story east ell was added around 1840 and served as Dr. William Blanding's office. Most of the barns date from the ownership of William W. Blanding, about 1860 to 1885, and include a large cow barn and a stone wagon barn described as the largest of five stone-walled buildings in Rehoboth. An early 19th-century corn barn still stands on its original staddles. The Blanding family were prominent in this part of Rehoboth for about a century, and Dr. Blanding wrote a manuscript of reminiscences describing local houses around 1800. Because the farm has changed little since 1875 and keeps its open pasture, it records 19th-century dairy farming and rural life, and it was listed for its architecture, its farming history and its family associations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Used as a residence and farm complex; the owner lives in the house and the farm is leased for pasturing dry cows. The house is described as being in excellent original condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.547561-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7895/63789537/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000666.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000666/b558ac66f0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000666/b558ac66f0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RehobothMA_BlandingFarm.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_BlandingFarm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789537","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_Cottage/Blanding_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5366261"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/elm-cottage-blanding-farm-83000666/"}