{"nrhp_refnum":"84002258","name":"Washburn, Samuel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"68 Winthrop St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Taunton","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.897460186000046,"lon":-71.09737694299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate villa-style house of stuccoed stone blocks at 68 Winthrop Street, Taunton, Massachusetts, built around 1860 for Salmon Washburn. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is the closest example on Winthrop Street to true Italian Villa architecture, with a square plan and stuccoed walls. It meets criterion C for its excellent preservation and the locally unique character of its spare Italianate design. It also reflects the quality of domestic construction affordable to Taunton's upper middle class in its most economically stable period.","narrative":"Built around 1860 at 68 Winthrop Street in Taunton, this square, two-story house of stone blocks follows the Italian Villa model more closely than any other high-style Italianate building on the street. Its walls are stuccoed and scored, and a very low-pitched hipped roof appears flat from eye level. A bold, semi-circular-arched doorway holds a cast-iron foliate screen in the transom, and the tall six-over-six windows have hoods carried on ancons. A broad box cornice and projecting eaves shade a frieze with attic windows on the side elevations. Salmon Washburn, who ran a furniture, housewares and hardware business on Main Street, had it built, and his sons later continued the firm. The doorway resembles one at 101 Somerset Avenue, which may point to the carpenter Abel Burt. The house was listed for its well-preserved, locally unique Italianate design and for what it shows of the comfortable homes of Taunton's prosperous middle class.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Villa / Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Recorded in 1979 as unaltered and unmoved, with no outbuildings; in use as a gift shop and residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.814397-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7893/63789331/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002258.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002258/d4e9c02d21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002258/d4e9c02d21-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Washburn_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:Samuel_Washburn_House,_Taunton_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789331","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Washburn_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7412890"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/washburn-samuel-house-84002258/"}