{"nrhp_refnum":"83000802","name":"Frost, Elizabeth, Tenanthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Bowdoin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.383556216000045,"lon":-71.12163663399997,"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 small Federal-style wood-frame house at 35 Bowdoin Street in Old Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1812 as rental property and moved to its present site in the 1840s.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the house to the development of the North Avenue community and to one of Cambridge's prominent early families, the Frosts. It is also presented as an important example of its type and style, one of ten surviving Old Cambridge houses built between 1800 and 1833. A reviewer noted it illustrates early development of the area, its early 19th-century appearance, and its later relocation and reuse.","narrative":"This small, low hip-roofed Federal-style house at 35 Bowdoin Street in Cambridge was built in 1812 as rental property. Gideon Frost, a fourth-generation member of a family established in Cambridge since 1700, died before it was finished, and his wife Elizabeth inherited it. She had it moved in 1846 from its original site at 1700 Massachusetts Avenue to a lot on newly laid-out Bowdoin Street, where it stands on an unusually large lot beside another early Frost house. Clapboard walls and six-over-six windows mark its original character, while bay additions made between 1942 and 1950 enlarged the tiny interior spaces. It is one of ten surviving Old Cambridge houses built between 1800 and 1833, a relatively quiet period for this part of the city. Its listing rests on its connection to the development of the North Avenue community and on its value as a representative example of its type and style.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; bay additions were made on each side of the house between 1942 and 1950.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.995046-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7905/63790522/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000802.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000802/a275f5cd62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000802/a275f5cd62-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CambridgeMA_ElizabethFrostTenantHouse.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:CambridgeMA_ElizabethFrostTenantHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790522","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Frost_Tenanthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5362807"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/frost-elizabeth-tenanthouse-83000802/"}