{"nrhp_refnum":"85001035","name":"Hornblower, Edward, House and Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.40842559300006,"lon":-71.15941711099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential house and former barn at 200 Pleasant Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. The house probably dates to the 1830s and was moved to the site in 1850. The barn was built in 1805 and also moved to the site around 1850.","why_significant":"The house is an unusual blend of Greek Revival form with mid and late 19th-century Romantic Revival, Eastlakian and stick-style alterations made around 1870. It is also tied to Edward Hornblower, a Boston brokerage founder who lived there in the early 1870s. It represents Arlington's suburban development along Pleasant Street above Spy Pond.","narrative":"This house at 200 Pleasant Street in Arlington, Massachusetts, probably dates to the 1830s and was moved to its present site in 1850. Its Greek Revival gable-end form was later layered with changes: flush boards across the main facade around 1850, then an Eastlakian entrance porch supporting a bay window, a low-pitched gable and a stick-style balustrade around 1870. Those changes probably date from the early 1870s occupancy of Edward Hornblower, a founder of the Boston brokerage firm Hornblower and Weeks. From 1876 to 1912 the house belonged to George Freeman, a Boston jeweler and Arlington Boat Club member. A small structure at the rear began as a barn built in 1805 for the Squire Whittemore House and was moved to this lot around 1850. Homes along Pleasant Street overlooking Spy Pond appealed to upper-middle-class commuters in the later 19th century. The property was listed for its well-detailed record of successive alterations and its link to Arlington's suburban growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival with Romantic Revival elements","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form notes the house was altered around 1870 and that both house and barn were moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.013564-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7917/63791742/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85001035.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001035/98febd4fcf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001035/98febd4fcf-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Hornblower_House_and_Barn,_ArlingtonMA_-_IMG_2773.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Hornblower_House_and_Barn,_ArlingtonMA_-_IMG_2773.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791742","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hornblower_House_and_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5343503"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hornblower-edward-house-and-barn-85001035/"}