{"nrhp_refnum":"84000575","name":"Ahearn House and Summer House","other_names":["David Curran House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Pamet Point Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wellfleet","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.95929720200007,"lon":-70.04443575599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A early 19th-century three-quarter Cape Cod house with an associated 19th-century summer house/outbuilding, on Pamet Point Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, within Cape Cod National Seashore, on a 6.3 acre tract.","why_significant":"The house is a largely intact 19th-century example of the Cape Cod house type and the only three-quarter Cape among five 19th-century Cape Cod style houses identified in a Park Service survey. It is also one of the least altered of those the Park Service owns. The house and summer house are reminders of the settlement that once dominated the Wellfleet countryside and of the outer Cape's cultural landscape.","narrative":"Set on Pamet Point Road in Wellfleet, this property includes an early 19th-century three-quarter Cape house and a 19th-century summer house, both now within Cape Cod National Seashore. The house is a timber-framed, story-and-a-half building on a brick foundation with a wood-shingled pitched roof, a central chimney, and mostly 9/6 sash windows. Its Federalist-period doorway pilasters and mid-19th-century cornice reflect modest changes over time. The interior keeps its original plan of a central entrance flanked by two rooms, with a kitchen at the rear and bedrooms upstairs. The summer house, enlarged with a shed section in the mid-20th century and converted to a cottage, still preserves most of its original features. The property was nominated because it is the only three-quarter Cape among five 19th-century Cape Cod style houses identified in a Park Service survey, and one of the least altered. It also recalls the farming settlement of the outer Cape.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Cape Cod house (three-quarter Cape)","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.648032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/46/7939/63793946/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84000575.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000575/822d97fe19-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000575/822d97fe19-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"NPS photograph","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahearn_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">NPS photograph</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ahearn_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793946","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahearn_House_and_Summer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4695053"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/ahearn-house-and-summer-house-84000575/"}