{"nrhp_refnum":"83004142","name":"Thomson, C.R., House and Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Chockalog St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uxbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.03263612000006,"lon":-71.67923685199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-storey timber-frame farmhouse and a mid-Victorian style barn on Chockalog Street in rural Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The house dates from about 1800, with Victorian-era alterations, and the barn was built in the 1880s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house and barn preserve good examples of timber-frame construction and mid-Victorian decorative detail. The barn is described as lavish and well preserved. The property is also tied to the agrarian development of Uxbridge through Comfort R. Thomson, a farmer and livestock breeder, and the nomination notes an early attempt at silver mining on the land. It is marked as meeting criteria C and D.","narrative":"On Chockalog Street in rural Uxbridge, a small farm group combines an early timber-frame cottage with a showy Victorian barn. The house is a one-storey building with a central chimney, set on a rock-faced granite foundation. It dates from about 1800 and was updated in the 1870s with two-over-two sash windows, a new entry hood and front door, and an ell added around 1860 to 1870. West of the house stands a large barn from the 1880s with scalloped bargeboards over the entries, bracketed cornices, window caps on brackets and a cupola, all in unaltered condition. Comfort R. Thomson, a farmer and livestock breeder, owned the land through much of the nineteenth century and had the barn built to raise show team oxen. Around 1839 part of the land was mined for silver ore, but the effort was abandoned because the ore was poor and keeping the shaft free of water cost too much. The property was listed for its architecture and its record of local farming.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Timber-frame vernacular and mid-Victorian","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Present use is given as the same as the original use, a residence. The barn's decorative details are described as unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.810906-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7931/63793138/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83004142.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004142/dd8ad7a9d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004142/dd8ad7a9d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ksherin","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C.R._Thomson_House_and_Barn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ksherin</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:C.R._Thomson_House_and_Barn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793138","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.R._Thomson_House_and_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5006199"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/thomson-c-r-house-and-barn-83004142/"}