{"nrhp_refnum":"85003290","name":"House at 5 Lincoln Road","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5 Lincoln Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brookline","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.33395563800008,"lon":-71.12542905699996,"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":"An Italianate-style residential house at 5 Lincoln Road (also 22 Stanton Road) in Brookline, Massachusetts, built about 1852 on a small corner lot. The first owner was probably Samuel Crafts.","why_significant":"The house is one of four Italianate houses on its street and keeps its asymmetrical L-shaped plan and picturesque massing. It also retains details such as bracketed eaves, bracketed window heads, triple windows, polygonal bays and round-arched windows. Historically it was later owned by E.S. Ritchie, a maker of scientific instruments who built a magnetic observatory nearby.","narrative":"Built around 1852 on a small corner lot in Brookline, this Italianate house at 5 Lincoln Road was probably first owned by Samuel Crafts, who inherited a large parcel of land from his aunt and helped found the Harvard Congregational Society. Crafts rented the house to E.S. Ritchie in 1855, and Ritchie owned it by 1857. Ritchie made philosophical instruments and built a magnetic observatory on nearby Gorham Avenue for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Navigation. The house is one of four Italianate houses on the street and is older than two of the others. It shows typical features of the style: deep eaves, double brackets, rounded windows, heavy cornices over the windows, and square porch supports. It keeps its asymmetrical L-shaped plan, picturesque massing, triple windows and one-story polygonal bays. Alterations include conversion to a two-family house in 1928 and a dormer added in 1939.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in residential use; converted to a two-family house in 1928 and given a dormer in 1939. A small garage stands on the lot.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.479946-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7924/63792449/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003290.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003290/10e03da647-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003290/10e03da647-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrooklineMA_5LincolnRoad.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_5LincolnRoad.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792449","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_5_Lincoln_Road","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914429"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/house-at-5-lincoln-road-85003290/"}