{"nrhp_refnum":"84002382","name":"House at 23 East Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"23 East St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Methuen","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.72633749500005,"lon":-71.17689565899997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small Greek Revival cottage at 23 East Street in Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts, built around 1840 by an unknown architect. It is a clapboard house with a small carriage house in the rear.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an excellent example of the small Greek Revival cottages found in Methuen's outlying areas. Its three-bay, gable-end-to-the-road form contrasts with earlier five-bay rural types. It is also characteristic of pre-Civil War houses that sheltered boot, shoe and hat makers as well as farmers, and it retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.","narrative":"Built around 1840, this small clapboard cottage on East Street southeast of Methuen's town center is a Greek Revival house in a well-developed residential neighborhood. Its three-bay facade turns the gable end toward the road, a layout that differs from the earlier five-bay houses common on the town's rural edges. The house rests on a granite rubble foundation, and its Greek Revival entrance has full glazed sidelights and a transom. The steeply pitched gable dormers may be later additions. A small carriage house stands in the rear. Houses of this type were common in Methuen before the Civil War and often sheltered boot and shoe makers, hat makers and farmers, reflecting the cottage industries scattered across the town in the early nineteenth century. The property was listed because it is a well-preserved example of Greek Revival building tied to that pre-Civil War development, with its location, design, setting, materials and workmanship largely intact. The architect is unknown, and the house is still a private residence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is a private residence, the same as its original use; no major alterations are recorded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.950807-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7900/63790092/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002382.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002382/33a99bab03-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002382/33a99bab03-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"EraserGirl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_23_East_Street.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:House_at_23_East_Street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790092","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_23_East_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/house-at-23-east-street-84002382/"}