{"nrhp_refnum":"86001771","name":"Bayley House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"16 Fairmont Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.349061782000035,"lon":-71.18882596699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Medieval Revival style suburban house at 16 Fairmont Avenue in Newton Corner, Newton, Massachusetts, built in 1883-1884 and designed by Peabody & Stearns. It is built of brick and shingle and is still a dwelling.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is an important local example of work by the celebrated firm Peabody & Stearns. It shows the eclecticism that dominated Boston-area building from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. It is also one of the large suburban residences built on Mount Ida in the late 1800s.","narrative":"Built in 1883-84 at 16 Fairmont Avenue in Newton Corner, this brick and shingle house was designed by the Boston firm Peabody & Stearns for a Mr. Bayley of Porter, White & Bayley. It belongs to a group of large suburban residences raised on Mount Ida after the Civil War, and it may stand on the site of an earlier Brackett family house. The design draws on the quasi-Medieval side of Queen Anne architecture, with an irregular mass, a broken roofline, steep gables with half-timbering, and polychromatic masonry of red pressed brick, brownstone and terra cotta. The plan abandons center-hall symmetry, and each ground floor reception room was styled in a different historical period. The house originally faced Centre Street, but after part of the lot was sold and built upon, its main orientation shifted to Fairmont Avenue. Its listing rests on its value as a local example of the eclectic work of Peabody & Stearns, a nationally known firm.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Peabody & Stearns (architect); built by a Mr. Bayley of Porter, White & Bayley","architectural_style":"Medieval Revival (quasi-Medieval Queen Anne influenced by John Ruskin)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; still used as a dwelling; southeast porch has been enclosed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.934705-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7910/63791098/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001771.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001771/39eba32731-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001771/39eba32731-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Thomas Kelley from Boston, MA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bayley_House,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Kelley from Boston, MA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bayley_House,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791098","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayley_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4874574"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/bayley-house-86001771/"}