{"nrhp_refnum":"85003262","name":"Elliot, Gen. Simon, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"61 Heath St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brookline","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.32477636800007,"lon":-71.14441570199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story Greek Revival style cottage at 61 Heath Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, built in 1824 by General Simon Elliot. It has a clapboard exterior and an attached three-stall carriage house.","why_significant":"The house is argued to meet criterion C as one of the oldest Greek Revival homes in Brookline. It keeps typical features such as pilastered cornerboards, returns, a doorway with sidelights and transom, and gable-end siting facing the street. Later Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival alterations are described as architecturally significant in their own right.","narrative":"Built in 1824 at 61 Heath Street in Brookline, this one-and-a-half story cottage was constructed by General Simon Elliot, a Scotland-born man who came to America at 17 and earned his rank in the Continental Army. Elliot lived in Boston, kept several shops on State Street and owned mills and a nail factory in Newton. His daughter Sarah married the merchant Thomas Handasyd Perkins. The house later passed to his nephew, Simon Elliot Greene, and then to the family of John Sullivan Warren, who left money for planting shade trees along Brookline's streets. Architecturally, the house keeps its Greek Revival doorway with transom and sidelights, pilastered cornerboards, returns and gable-end siting. Later work added Gothic Revival arches, steep dormers and Colonial Revival pediments, dentils and modillions. Smaller than many Brookline Greek Revival houses but older, it was listed for its architecture and its layered alterations. It sits on about two and two-thirds acres, with an attached carriage house.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"General Simon Elliot (builder, 1824); architect information not available","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (original), with later Gothic Revival (Tudor) and Colonial Revival alterations","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; original use was also residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.667605-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7924/63792423/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003262.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003262/88bb8cb9da-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003262/88bb8cb9da-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrooklineMA_GenSimonElliotHouse.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:BrooklineMA_GenSimonElliotHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792423","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen._Simon_Elliot_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5530822"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/elliot-gen-simon-house-85003262/"}