{"nrhp_refnum":"86001825","name":"House at 230 Winchester Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"230 Winchester St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.31220414500007,"lon":-71.20890197699998,"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 single-family Italian Villa style house at 230 Winchester Street in Newton Highlands, Newton, Massachusetts, built in 1873 and still used as a residence, with a carriage barn on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an elaborate, well-preserved example of the Italian villa style in Newton Highlands, where the style is rare. Its informal massing, corner tower and mansard roof are unusual in the Highlands and the city. It is also the lone surviving Victorian-era house amid later 20th-century development.","narrative":"Built in 1873 on a hillside in Newton Highlands, this clapboard house at 230 Winchester Street is an Italian villa with the informal massing and irregular outline of a country residence. A 2-1/2-story corner tower with a decorative slate mansard roof contrasts with the hipped main block and a hipped gable front. Roman-arched tower windows, a shallow triple oriel with a peaked entablature, and scroll-sawn brackets add detail. Its first occupant was Jesse P. Newcomb, who worked in the boot business in Boston. The lot was part of a roughly 24-acre tract held by the Highland Land Associates, and a June 1873 newspaper item likely refers to this house among two mansard-roofed houses then being finished on Winchester Street. Little other building followed, as the area lacked convenient public transportation. Today the house survives as a solitary Victorian-era dwelling among 20th-century housing, and it is valued as a rare, well-preserved local example of the villa style.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italian Villa","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is residence; condition is good, with no major alterations and the house 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 02:13:01.662426-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7909/63790980/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001825.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001825/2459c6dd41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001825/2459c6dd41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NewtonMA_HouseAt230WinchesterStreet.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:NewtonMA_HouseAt230WinchesterStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790980","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_230_Winchester_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914138"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-230-winchester-street-86001825/"}