{"nrhp_refnum":"86000301","name":"Bradford, Captain Daniel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"251 Harrison St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Duxbury","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":42.03930735400007,"lon":-70.68511023399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, wood-frame Federal-style house at 251 Harrison Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts, built in 1808 by sea captain Daniel Bradford. It has a western ell and a barn of about the same date, on a roughly 7-acre wooded lot.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a well-executed and well-preserved example of Federal architecture. It reflects Duxbury's brief period of maritime growth and prosperity in the early 19th century. It was also the home of Daniel Bradford and later of Jacob and Moxon Smith, all shipmasters and sea captains.","narrative":"Captain Daniel Bradford built this five-bay, two-story Federal house in 1808, a year after becoming master of his own ship, the Brutus. It sits on a knoll set back from Harrison Street in Duxbury, with a hipped roof, a pedimented entrance with sidelights and fanlight, and a granite foundation. A western ell and a barn of about the same date complete the property. Bradford sold the house in 1811 to Jacob Smith, another sea captain, whose son Moxon also lived there. The Bradford family regained it in 1865, and Lawrence Bradford enlarged the ell in 1885. Duxbury's shipbuilding boom of roughly 1780 to 1840 produced many such captains' houses, and the town's later economic decline left them largely unaltered. The house is valued as a well-preserved Federal design, for its links to that maritime era, and for its association with three shipmasters. Possible archaeological remains near the house and barn are also noted as significant.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Excellent condition; remains a single-family private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.385789-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7965/63796532/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86000301.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000301/ac3dc8d2e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000301/ac3dc8d2e9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:251_Harrison_Street,_Duxbury_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:251_Harrison_Street,_Duxbury_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796532","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Daniel_Bradford_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5036617"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/bradford-captain-daniel-house-86000301/"}