{"nrhp_refnum":"84002438","name":"Tenny Castle Gatehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"37 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Methuen","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.72962449900007,"lon":-71.18397296499995,"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 granite gatehouse at 37 Pleasant Street, Methuen, Massachusetts, begun as a stone dwelling around 1840 and expanded in the late 19th century to serve as the entrance lodge to the Tenney estate.","why_significant":"It is associated with Charles Tenney, who remodelled the building as the gatehouse to his estate, Grey Court Manor, designed by Carrere and Hastings in 1890-92. It is the only structure on the extensive estate to survive intact. It is judged to retain integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship, and to meet criteria B and C.","narrative":"Located at 37 Pleasant Street in Methuen, this granite building began around 1840 as a two-story stone dwelling with a five-bay facade and central entry, and it appears on the 1846 Barker Map of Methuen. In the late 19th century Charles Tenney had it refitted as the gatehouse at the entrance to his estate, Grey Court Manor, designed by Carrere and Hastings in 1890-92. The changes included a new hipped roof, a shingled Queen Anne corner tower with a weathervane and multi-paned windows, new chimneys with Queen Anne style chimney-pots, and entrance porches with patterned shingles in the gables. Walls are coursed granite block, with rubble on the northeast facade. It is the only structure on the large estate to survive intact, and the corner tower appears prominently in historical photographs of the property. It remains a private residence and was listed for its association with Tenney and its architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne with Jacobethan feature","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Present use is a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.765092-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/7901/63790108/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002438.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002438/41e5a47543-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002438/41e5a47543-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"EraserGirl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tenney_Gatehouse_2.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:Tenney_Gatehouse_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790108","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenney_Castle_Gatehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7700277"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/tenny-castle-gatehouse-84002438/"}