{"nrhp_refnum":"84002150","name":"Knapp, Job, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"81 Shores St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Taunton","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.90207821200005,"lon":-71.11320025299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A gambrel-roofed, one-and-a-half-story wood-shingled house at 81 Shores Street in Taunton, Massachusetts, dating to the early 18th century. The architect is unknown and it is used as a residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an extremely rare example of gambrel-roofed construction, found in only a small percentage of Southeastern Massachusetts houses. It appears on a 1728 map, which would make it one of the oldest standing structures in the city. It retains the gambrel-roof cottage form, few examples of which survive in Taunton.","narrative":"Job Knapp House, at 81 Shores Street in Taunton, is an early 18th-century gambrel-roofed cottage. It is a story and a half tall and covered in wood shingles. Its features include very small window openings, a central wood plank door framed by narrow sidelights, close-cropped eaves and a rebuilt central chimney that breaks the roofline. The house has been altered, with shingles added and the doorway widened in the 20th century, but it has not been moved. It is still used as a residence. Its importance lies in its rarity: gambrel-roofed construction appears in only a small percentage of houses in Southeastern Massachusetts, and few gambrel cottages of this period survive in Taunton. A 1728 map of the town shows the house, which would make it one of the oldest standing structures in the city. It was listed for its architecture, with its design, setting, materials and workmanship largely intact.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gambrel Colonial","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a residence; altered by added wood shingles, a widened doorway in the 20th century and a rebuilt central chimney.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.170548-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7895/63789505/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002150.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002150/c54865052f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002150/c54865052f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TauntonMA_JobKnappHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TauntonMA_JobKnappHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789505","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Knapp_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6206671"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/knapp-job-house-84002150/"}