{"nrhp_refnum":"83000811","name":"Howe House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 Appleton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.37793761800003,"lon":-71.13322897099994,"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 Queen Anne/Shingle Style wood-shingled house at 6 Appleton Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1887 to designs by the Boston firm Cabot and Chandler.","why_significant":"The house was the lifelong home of Lois Lilley Howe from 1889 to 1963. Howe was among the first women to graduate in architecture from MIT, led an all-woman architectural firm, and was the first woman elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. The nomination cites Criterion A for the role of women in architecture and Criterion B for the association with Howe, although she did not design the house.","narrative":"Built in 1887 at 6 Appleton Street in Cambridge, this wood-shingled house was designed by the Boston firm Cabot and Chandler in a blend of Queen Anne and Shingle styles. It has a gambrel roof, an elongated hip dormer combined with a chimney stack, a broad overhang above the first floor and a symmetrical facade. The house was first built for the Howe family and has always been residential. Its main importance comes from Lois Lilley Howe (1864-1964), who lived there from 1889 until 1963. Howe was one of the first women to graduate from MIT's architecture program, organized the only all-woman architectural firm in early twentieth-century Boston, and in 1931 became the first woman elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She did not design this house, but it is tied to her most productive years designing homes, including at least 33 commissions in Cambridge. It was listed for its link to women's role in architecture and to Howe herself.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Cabot and Chandler (Cabot & Chandler)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Shingle","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Listed as residential use; the form records it as unaltered and not moved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.477764-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7904/63790482/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000811.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000811/72444167be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000811/72444167be-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howe_House,_6_Appleton_Street,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4701.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howe_House,_6_Appleton_Street,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4701.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790482","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howe_House_(Cambridge,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5921558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/howe-house-83000811/"}