{"nrhp_refnum":"85001050","name":"Whittemore House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"267 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Arlington","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.413504629000045,"lon":-71.14792473099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century Greek Revival house at 267 Broadway in Arlington, Massachusetts, built as a residence and now divided into four multifamily units. It lies within the Broadway Historic District.","why_significant":"It is described as the only Greek Revival building in Arlington with a pedimented two-story porch, a striking temple-front design. Original features include a monumental Doric portico, window enframements, doorway and entablature details, and an unusual triangular wood fanlight in the pediment. It meets criterion C as an example of temple-front Greek Revival architecture.","narrative":"Whittemore House, at 267 Broadway in Arlington, Massachusetts, is a mid-19th-century residence built in the Greek Revival style. Its temple-front form, with a monumental Doric portico and a pedimented two-story porch, is the only example of that combination recorded in Arlington. A triangular wood fanlight in the pediment is another unusual feature. The house has been divided into four apartments and covered with asbestos shingle over its original clapboard, and an ell was extended to the rear in the late 19th century. Even so, the window enframements, doorway and entablature details, and the portico remain original. The house sits within the Broadway Historic District, a local district designated in 1981. Its closest architectural relative in the area was the First Parish's Third Meetinghouse of 1844, which later burned; the church's colonnaded facade could be seen from the house's front door. The property was listed for its architectural value as a temple-front Greek Revival building.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as multifamily housing, divided into four units and re-sided with asbestos shingle over clapboard; a rear ell was added in the late 19th century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.606196-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7908/63790878/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85001050.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001050/062c20cdfb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001050/062c20cdfb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"own work","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArlingtonMA_WhittemoreHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">own work</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:ArlingtonMA_WhittemoreHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790878","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittemore_House_(Arlington,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996842"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/whittemore-house-85001050/"}