{"nrhp_refnum":"83000791","name":"Child, Francis J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"67 Kirkland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.378191542000025,"lon":-71.10979560499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential house at 67 Kirkland Street in the Shady Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1861 for Francis J. Child. It is a wood-clapboard house in the Mansard style.","why_significant":"The house is considered architecturally significant for combining the Mansard style with applied Gothic decoration like that found in A. J. Downing cottages. It is made up of two mansard-roofed blocks, each symmetrical but joined in an asymmetrical massing, which was unusual for the early 1860s. It meets criterion C.","narrative":"Built in 1861 for Francis J. Child, this house at 67 Kirkland Street sits in Cambridge's Shady Hill neighborhood, beside the former home of Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. It is a wood-clapboard residence with a curved lower mansard roof covered in hexagonal slates, a full front porch with chamfered posts, and dormers topped with jigsaw-cut cornice boards. A projecting bay above the porch has acorn drops. The house is set well back from the street among trees and shrubs, and it still has its original siding. Its significance lies in its design. Two mansard-roofed blocks, each symmetrical, combine into an asymmetrical whole, an arrangement unusual for the early 1860s, when more formal layouts were favored. The picturesque Gothic ornament, the veranda linking house to setting, and the tall chimneys and slender porch posts reflect the influence of A. J. Downing's cottage designs. The house was recognized for this architectural character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mansard","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Residential use; the original use is stated as unchanged. Windows have been remodelled at an unknown date.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.193617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7905/63790554/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000791.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000791/df85ad9d18-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000791/df85ad9d18-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Swampyank at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_J._Child_House_in_Cambridge_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Swampyank at en.wikipedia</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:Francis_J._Child_House_in_Cambridge_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86001680","name":"Shady Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/shady-hill-historic-district-86001680/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790554","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_J._Child_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715475"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/child-francis-j-house-83000791/"}