{"nrhp_refnum":"83000809","name":"Hooper-Eliot House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"25 Reservoir Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.37913650100006,"lon":-71.13654908099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame house at 25 Reservoir Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1872 for Edward W. Hooper to designs by Sturgis & Brigham.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an early work of the Georgian Revival, combined with Stick Style detailing, by a firm that helped popularize the revival. It also notes an association with the Reverend Samuel A. Eliot, who bought the house in 1902 and lived there for the rest of his life. Eliot was president of the American Unitarian Association and a minister at the Arlington Street Church.","narrative":"Built in 1872 for Edward W. Hooper, this wood-frame house at 25 Reservoir Road in Cambridge was designed by the firm Sturgis & Brigham. It is regarded as an early and pioneering example of the Georgian Revival, shown in its gambrel roof, five-bay facade with a center entrance, and a main stairway patterned after the one in the John Hancock House. John Sturgis had measured that staircase before its demolition and had studied Georgian architecture during years spent in England. The design is not a pure revival, since Stick Style detailing, including a band between the first and second stories, appears alongside Georgian elements. Lois Lilley Howe remodelled the entrance in 1902, giving it a south-facing doorway with a broken scroll pediment, and a rear ell was added in 1889. The Reverend Samuel A. Eliot bought the house in 1902 and lived there for the rest of his life. He led the American Unitarian Association and served the Arlington Street Church.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Sturgis & Brigham (1872); Lois Lilley Howe (1902 entrance remodelling)","architectural_style":"Stick Style / Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as residential in present use; the entrance was altered in 1902 and a rear ell was added in 1889.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:58.007079-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7905/63790588/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000809.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000809/c3c07d6259-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000809/c3c07d6259-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hooper-Eliot_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:Hooper-Eliot_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper-Eliot_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5898335"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hooper-eliot-house-83000809/"}