{"nrhp_refnum":"86002140","name":"Eames, Philip, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Stone House Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washington","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.380556169000045,"lon":-73.11873457999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone residence and farm house built in 1843 on Stone House Road in Washington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, on a one-acre lot at the brow of a hill in a rural setting.","why_significant":"It is Washington's only stone house and is described as the town's most imposing and best-preserved mid-19th-century residence. It shows finely articulated late Federal and early Greek Revival detailing and is unusually intact. It is also tied to the Western Railroad, whose rock cut supplied the granite.","narrative":"Built in 1843 on Stone House Road in Washington, Massachusetts, this two-and-a-half-story house is the town's only stone dwelling. Its walls are quarried, irregularly cut granite, said to have come from Summit Rock, the point where the Western Railroad was blasted through a half-mile cut 55 feet deep. The plan is a five-bay, central-entrance, double-pile form similar to other local houses, but the stone construction and fine detailing set it apart. The entry has an elliptical fan and full-length sidelights within a keyed arch and four tapered granite pilasters. Granite blocks also form the enclosed pediments at each gable end, and the 6/6 windows have granite lintels and sills. Philip Eames owned one of several sawmills in the 1850s, during the town's brief prosperity after the railroad arrived. In the early twentieth century a later owner, an avid gardener, added a greenhouse. The house remains in excellent condition and largely unaltered, with three early twentieth-century outbuildings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Federal (late Federal/early Greek Revival detailing)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as excellent, with no major alterations; it is in present use as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.461539-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7892/63789230/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86002140.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002140/489fd06269-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002140/489fd06269-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WashingtonMA_PhilipEamesHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WashingtonMA_PhilipEamesHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Eames_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7183495"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/eames-philip-house-86002140/"}