{"nrhp_refnum":"84002347","name":"Emerson, Capt. Oliver, Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"133 North St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Methuen","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.77742570000004,"lon":-71.18003080199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story Georgian farmhouse at 133 North Street in Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, built around 1775 and associated with Captain Oliver Emerson. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is a well preserved dwelling along one of Methuen's early roads. It is linked to Oliver Emerson, a locally prominent Revolutionary War captain. It also reflects Methuen's early development before 1850, when most residents lived along a network of country roads.","narrative":"Captain Oliver Emerson's homestead at 133 North Street in Methuen is a 2½-story farmhouse dating from about 1775. It has a five-bay clapboard facade with a central entry, a granite rubble foundation and an intact central chimney mass that contributes to its 18th-century appearance. Second-story windows keep their 6/6 double-hung sash, while the 9/9 sash on the first floor may be restorations. The entry door dates from about 1860 and has double-round arched lights. The house sits on about 1.6 acres in a rural part of northeast Methuen and has a one-story wood-frame garage. It was listed because it is a well preserved dwelling on one of the town's early roads, because of its link to Oliver Emerson, a locally prominent Revolutionary War captain, and because it represents Methuen's early development before 1850, when the population was scattered along country roads. It remains a private residence, with no major alterations recorded.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Present use is a private residence, the same as its original use. The form lists no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.922346-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7901/63790190/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002347.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002347/1fdab32cb0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002347/1fdab32cb0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"EraserGirl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capt._Oliver_Emerson_Homestead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">EraserGirl</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capt._Oliver_Emerson_Homestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790190","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capt._Oliver_Emerson_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5036462"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/emerson-capt-oliver-homestead-84002347/"}