{"nrhp_refnum":"85003281","name":"House at 12-16 Corey Road","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12--16 Corey Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brookline","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.338231472000075,"lon":-71.14244555199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of three attached townhouses at 12-16 Corey Road in Brookline, Massachusetts, built in 1896 as dwellings by the real estate firm Arthur & Shaw and designed by architect Arthur H. Bowditch.","why_significant":"The form argues the row is a fine example of attached townhouses in the Medieval Revival/Shingle style, designed by Arthur Bowditch, who produced many apartment houses and dwellings in Brookline. It also represents a suburban version of urban townhouses and a response to the need for housing on limited land after the streetcar arrived in Brookline.","narrative":"Three attached townhouses at 12-16 Corey Road in Brookline were built in 1896 from designs by architect Arthur H. Bowditch, who worked widely in the town between 1894 and 1925. The three-story row has wooden shingle walls, steeply pitched gables, gabled dormers with trefoil designs, banded bay windows, leaded and diamond-pane glass, and large paneled brick chimneys. These features give the row a Medieval Revival look combined with Shingle style detail, and several echo other Bowditch houses in Brookline. Real estate agents Alan Arthur and Gardiner Shaw built the houses and soon sold them. The buyer of number 12 occupied it, while numbers 14 and 16 were rented to a lumber merchant and a drug distributor. The row is recognized as a suburban take on the urban townhouse and as a response to the demand for housing on small lots after streetcar service reached Brookline. It remains in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect Arthur H. Bowditch; built by Alan Arthur and Gardiner Shaw (Arthur & Shaw)","architectural_style":"Medieval Revival and Shingle styles","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form lists a garage built in 1928 and a rear window altered in 1924.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.24354-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7925/63792588/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003281.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003281/f87de14ec2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003281/f87de14ec2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrooklineMA_HouseAt12-16CoreyRoad.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_HouseAt12-16CoreyRoad.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_12%E2%80%9316_Corey_Road","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5913907"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/house-at-12-16-corey-road-85003281/"}