{"nrhp_refnum":"87000229","name":"Baker, Nathaniel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1606 Hyannis Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Barnstable","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.69583413700008,"lon":-70.30176977499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-03-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay Georgian house at 1606 Hyannis Road in Barnstable Village, Massachusetts, built about 1721 and used today as a residence.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the early Barnstable Baker family, whose land holdings gave Hyannis Road the name Baker's Way. It also records the family's declining economic status through deeds and probate records. It is a vernacular example of an early Georgian dwelling later converted to two-family use.","narrative":"Standing at 1606 Hyannis Road near the center of Barnstable Village, this Georgian house dates to about 1721 and is believed to have been built by Nathaniel Baker IV on land left by his father. It is a full five-bay, two-story, shingle-clad building under a hip roof, with a center chimney behind the ridge, 6/6 windows and a two-story hipped ell at the rear. Original paneling and fireplaces survive inside. The Baker family held so much land nearby that Hyannis Road was once called Baker's Way. In 1778 Nathaniel Baker deeded half the dwelling to his daughters, dividing it through the front door, and the house served as a two-family residence until 1926. Deeds and the 1794 estate inventory, which showed creditors could not be paid in full, document the family's declining fortunes. The house is valued for these family associations and as a vernacular early Georgian dwelling.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built c. 1721 by Nathaniel Baker IV (believed); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Georgian","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Present use residential; condition good; alterations confined to the interior; outbuildings include a garage and a two-room cottage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.716697-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7891/63789191/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/87000229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000229/9d404ec44d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000229/9d404ec44d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathaniel_Baker_House,_Barnstable_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:Nathaniel_Baker_House,_Barnstable_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789191","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Baker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6969493"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/baker-nathaniel-house-87000229/"}