{"nrhp_refnum":"83000684","name":"Ingalls-Wheeler-Horton Homstead Site","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"214 Chestnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rehoboth","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.817232466000064,"lon":-71.24633001999996,"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":"The site of an early homestead at 214 Chestnut Street in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where a house built about 1730 by Benjamin Ingalls once stood. A late Greek Revival house with Italianate details, standing by 1895, now occupies the property on about 3.3 acres.","why_significant":"The form argues the site has good archaeological potential to inform the history of an early homestead continuously occupied for about 250 years. The standing 1½-story house is also described as one of Rehoboth's most outstanding and best-preserved examples of a spare, functional farm cottage, and the form says it meets criterion C.","narrative":"This property at 214 Chestnut Street in Rehoboth combines an archaeological site with a well-preserved farmhouse. Benjamin Ingalls built the original homestead about 1730, and it passed through the Ingalls and Wheeler families. Captain Philip Wheeler Jr., a local militia officer, was fatally injured during training in 1774, after which the land was surveyed and divided among his children. A surveyor's sketch from that December shows a large center-chimney, three-story house with a hip roof. Around the end of the 19th century the Hortons moved into a newer house nearer the road, and the old homestead decayed and collapsed in the early 1900s. Digging by the present owners has turned up early 18th century ceramics, suggesting good archaeological potential. The newer house is a 1½-story, central-entry, five-room Late Greek Revival dwelling with Italianate details, a bracketed hood over etched-glass double doors, and largely original interior finishes. It is considered one of Rehoboth's best-preserved farm cottages.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; original owner of the current house was Simeon Horton; earlier house built by Benjamin Ingalls","architectural_style":"Late Greek Revival with Italianate details","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The earlier homestead decayed and collapsed in the early 1900s; the present house is a private residence and is described as relatively unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.822179-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7895/63789587/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000684.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789587","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingalls%E2%80%93Wheeler%E2%80%93Horton_Homestead_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6031839"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/ingalls-wheeler-horton-homstead-site-83000684/"}