{"nrhp_refnum":"84002716","name":"Jones, Thomas W., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"34 Warren St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stoneham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.47532570300007,"lon":-71.10186668599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Second Empire house with a carriage house at 34 Warren Street in the Lincolnville residential area of Stoneham, Massachusetts, built in 1878 for shoe manufacturer Thomas W. Jones. John Spencer, a local housewright, built it.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Stoneham's finest example of the Second Empire style, with its original features and carriage house intact. It is also tied to Thomas W. Jones, a prominent local shoe manufacturer, and was built during the town's greatest prosperity. It is argued to meet criteria A, B and C.","narrative":"Built in 1878 at 34 Warren Street, this two-story Second Empire house was the home of Thomas W. Jones, a Stoneham shoe manufacturer. It has a T-shaped plan, a granite foundation, clapboard siding and a patterned slate roof. Open bracketed porches, a bracketed cornice, gable screens, paneled pilasters and oriel windows decorate the exterior, and the carriage house survives. John Spencer, a local housewright who also built frame shoe factories, including Jones's, was the builder. Jones began his shoe career in 1850 and later built Stoneham's last large shoe factory, which employed about 275 people. The house is described as the town's finest Second Empire example and as typical of homes built by the second generation of local shoe manufacturers. It stands in Lincolnville, an area west of Main Street that was developed only in the early 1880s after earlier large estates. Jones was the last wealthy man to build there. It was listed for its architecture and its association with Stoneham's shoe industry.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Spencer, builder","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Still a private residence; the form reports no major alterations and says the house retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.789844-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7922/63792219/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002716.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002716/e06be182bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002716/e06be182bd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StonehamMA_ThomasWJonesHouse.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_ThomasWJonesHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792219","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Jones_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794760"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/jones-thomas-w-house-84002716/"}