{"nrhp_refnum":"86001284","name":"Hapgood, Richard, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"382--392 Harvard St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.371288950000064,"lon":-71.11296489699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-unit apartment house at 382-392 Harvard Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1889 to designs by J.R. and W.P. Richards. It is built of wood in the Queen Anne style.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its imaginative use of the Queen Anne style on a multi-family building (Criterion C). It also marks Cambridge's shift from single-family dwellings toward multi-unit housing (Criterion A). It was described as among the first and most ingenious solutions to the housing pressures of the period.","narrative":"Built in 1889 at 382-392 Harvard Street in Cambridge, this wood-frame building holds six apartments but is designed to look like a single large Queen Anne house. Architects J.R. and W.P. Richards gave it a projecting center tower, two lower side gables with projecting bays, turned porch posts, an irregular roofline and variegated shingles. Entrances for the six units are grouped around the center pavilion and on the end walls. The building is recognized for two reasons. Architecturally, it shows an imaginative use of the Queen Anne style on a multi-family house. Historically, it reflects a change in Cambridge housing after the 1870s, when scarce building sites and rising construction costs and taxes limited options for lower- and middle-class residents. Multi-unit dwellings became the answer, and this house was among the first and most ingenious examples. It remains in residential use, with no major alterations recorded and no history of being moved.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J.R. & W.P. Richards","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; the form reports no major alterations and says the building has not been moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.820715-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7918/63791819/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001284.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001284/ffd36278b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001284/ffd36278b5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Hapgood_House_-_382-392_Harvard_Street,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4073.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Hapgood_House_-_382-392_Harvard_Street,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4073.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791819","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hapgood_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7326257"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hapgood-richard-house-86001284/"}