{"nrhp_refnum":"86001893","name":"Thayer House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Channing St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.357359873000064,"lon":-71.18814281699997,"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 Carpenter Gothic cottage at 17 Channing Street in Newton Corner, Newton, Massachusetts, built in the 1860s by an unknown architect. It is a clapboard dwelling on a lot of less than one acre.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an unusual example of the Carpenter Gothic cottage form in Newton Corner, meeting Criterion C. Its scroll-saw ornament and retained Greek Revival details are cited as notable features.","narrative":"This cottage at 17 Channing Street in Newton Corner was built in the 1860s and still serves as a dwelling. It is a clapboard Carpenter Gothic house with three steeply pitched gables on the street side, clad in flush boards. Elaborate scrolled trim decorates the window lintels, and leaf and floral motifs fill the gable fields. The corner pilasters have unusual capitals with cyma-curved metal ribbons. The ornament reflects the inventiveness in wood detailing that followed the invention of the scroll saw. Like many Gothic Revival cottages, it keeps some Greek Revival features, including pedimented end gables and Ionic porch columns set within an enclosed vestibule. A mansard-roofed ell extends from the rear. Stephen O. Thayer, a local printer, owned the house in 1868, and the Thayer family held it into the early 1900s. It was listed because it is an unusual example of the Carpenter Gothic cottage in Newton Corner. The windows and entry were altered in the 20th century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Carpenter Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is dwelling; condition described as good; not moved; 20th-century alterations to the tri-partite facade windows and entry.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.964282-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7906/63790637/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001893.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001893/e552d3fa70-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001893/e552d3fa70-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Thomas Kelley from Boston, MA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thayer_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:Thayer_House,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790637","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thayer_House_(Newton,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7711547"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/thayer-house-86001893/"}