{"nrhp_refnum":"84002601","name":"Farrier, Amasa, Boardinghouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"280 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoneham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":43.292736543000046,"lon":-71.12847489699993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate-style boarding house at 280 Main Street, Stoneham, Massachusetts, built about 1865 for Amasa Farrier to house factory workers, with possible earlier sections.","why_significant":"It is described as Stoneham's best and only remaining intact example of a period boarding house. It reflects how some workers lived during the town's industrial heyday and retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship. The form states it meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"A large, simply built boarding house at 280 Main Street in Stoneham dates to about 1865, though some sections may be earlier. Amasa Farrier, the owner until 1883 and a town surveyor who planned Stoneham and Lindenwood Cemeteries, had it built to house workers at the nearby developing factories, and it was used for shoe-factory employees. The two-story clapboard building faces the street with its gable end, with a center entry in the five-bay north side and a secondary entry in the large rear ell. Ornament is modest: wide cornerboards, a bracketed raking cornice and a bracketed front porch, with windows holding 2/2 or 6/6 sash. A granite retaining wall separates it from Main Street. It is described as the only intact surviving example of a period boarding house in Stoneham, preserving evidence of how some workers lived during the town's industrial peak. It is now a residence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form lists a garage as an outbuilding and reports no major alterations and no move.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:58.030128-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7914/63791429/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002601.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002601/98e8d4f4af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002601/98e8d4f4af-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StonehamMA_AmasaFarrierBoardinghouse.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:StonehamMA_AmasaFarrierBoardinghouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791429","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasa_Farrier_Boardinghouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4740378"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/farrier-amasa-boardinghouse-84002601/"}