{"nrhp_refnum":"84002091","name":"Bassett, C.J.H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"20 Chestnut St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Taunton","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.903496450000034,"lon":-71.08985904499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story frame Gothic Revival house at 20 Chestnut Street in Taunton, Massachusetts, built in 1851 for attorney Charles Jarvis Hunt Bassett. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is described as Taunton's most fully developed example of Gothic Revival in a house of its size and may reflect the influence of Richard Upjohn. It is also tied to the prominent Bassett family, whose descendants lived there until about 1950, during Taunton's most prosperous era.","narrative":"Built in 1851 at 20 Chestnut Street in Taunton, this frame house was made for Charles Jarvis Hunt Bassett, a prominent local attorney and president of the Taunton Bank. Its irregular plan gives it a picturesque appearance, and it has a bellcast gable roof. Gothic Revival features include vergeboards incised and punched with quatrefoil motifs and pointed-arched windows in the roof dormers. Other windows are segmental-arched and round-arched, and the entrance sits in a recess with a segmental-arched transom and sidelights. Front and side porches rest on chamfered posts with simple cut brackets. The architect is unknown, though the design may have been influenced by Richard Upjohn, who carried out several commissions in Taunton in the 1850s. The house was listed as the city's most fully developed Gothic Revival example of its size and for its link to the Bassett family, whose descendants lived there until about 1950. The form notes it retains its original location, design, materials and setting, and it remains a residence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as a residence in present use; the form states it is unaltered and has not been moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.231488-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7893/63789327/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002091.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002091/738245029b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002091/738245029b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C.J.H._Bassett_House,_Taunton_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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.J.H._Bassett_House,_Taunton_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789327","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.J.H._Bassett_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715426"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/bassett-c-j-h-house-84002091/"}