{"nrhp_refnum":"84002633","name":"Hartshorn, Timothy, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"379 Haverhill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Reading","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.54319018700005,"lon":-71.08904333099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse at 379 Haverhill Street in Reading, Massachusetts, thought to have been built in 1787 by Timothy Hartshorn on an 8.1-acre property.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its role as an early farm and shoemaking homestead, its link to the locally important Hartshorn family, and its largely unaltered vernacular Georgian-Federal architecture. It argues the house keeps integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship and feeling.","narrative":"Set on 8.1 acres at 379 Haverhill Street in Reading, this farmhouse is thought to have been built in 1787 by Timothy Hartshorn, whose family was among the town's first settlers. The farm was established on the site in the early 18th century by Abraham Roberts. Hartshorn worked as a farmer and shoemaker, a pairing common among Reading men for the next century, and he also owned a share in a sawmill on the Ipswich River. The house is five bays long and two and a half stories high, with a central chimney, narrow windows set close to the plate, and a central doorway framed by fluted pilasters with a six-panel door. A later porch hides the entablature. Timothy W. Hartshorn, who lived here until 1870, was a photographer who ran a daguerreotype saloon on the Common. The property stayed in the family for almost a century. It was listed for its farm and shoemaking heritage, its Hartshorn family ties, and its well-preserved vernacular Georgian-Federal design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Timothy Hartshorn (thought to have built the house in 1787)","architectural_style":"Vernacular Federal (described as Reading's vernacular version of the Georgian-Federal style)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Altered by a late 19th-century front porch, a one-story east extension, a side entry and a two-story north ell; a garage stands on the property. The house has not been moved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.155198-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7922/63792227/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002633.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002633/c4731c09a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002633/c4731c09a2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ReadingMA_TimothyHartshornHouse.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:ReadingMA_TimothyHartshornHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792227","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Hartshorn_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7807239"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hartshorn-timothy-house-84002633/"}