{"nrhp_refnum":"86001790","name":"Dupee Estate","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"400 Beacon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.332502874000056,"lon":-71.17405060599998,"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 house with a carriage house at 400 Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, Newton, Massachusetts, built in 1880-1881 and designed by Peabody & Stearns. It sits on about 8.36 acres in a suburban setting with a generous setback.","why_significant":"The estate is significant as a work of the noted firm Peabody & Stearns. It is also an unusual example of the quasi-Medieval, Ruskin-influenced mode of the Queen Anne movement, adapted for a house instead of a monumental institutional building. Few masonry houses of this period exist in Newton.","narrative":"Dupee Estate is a brick and stone house with a carriage house at 400 Beacon Street in Chestnut Hill, Newton. It was built in 1880-1881 to designs by the architectural firm Peabody & Stearns. The house shows Queen Anne characteristics in its irregular mass and broken roofline, while blunt pointed arches and masonry construction give it Ruskinian Gothic overtones. This quasi-Medieval mode was usually used for monumental masonry buildings, and only a few domestic examples exist around Boston, including this one. Few masonry houses of the period survive in Newton. The land was owned by the Woodman family for most of the 19th century, and nearby farms were divided into suburban houses and large estates in the 1880s and 1890s. William Dupee, a Boston wool merchant, lived here. A wing was added and the entrance remodelled in 1907. Mary Baker Eddy later owned the house, and the Christian Science Church she founded now holds it. The house remains in very good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Peabody & Stearns","architectural_style":"Stick Style variant; quasi-Medieval mode of the Queen Anne movement with Ruskinian Gothic overtones","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition described as very good; the property is currently a dwelling and is owned by the Christian Science Church.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.059121-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7912/63791280/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001790.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001790/5ab6a59535-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001790/5ab6a59535-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Thomas Kelley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dupee_Estate_-_Mary_Baker_Eddy_Home,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Kelley</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:Dupee_Estate_-_Mary_Baker_Eddy_Home,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791280","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupee_Estate%E2%80%93Mary_Baker_Eddy_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5315919"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/dupee-estate-86001790/"}