{"nrhp_refnum":"87000236","name":"Whitman, Josiah B., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 Maple St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Barnstable","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.70877716900003,"lon":-70.38857274699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-03-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story French Second Empire style house with a southwest wing at 210 Maple Street in West Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, built circa 1860 for Josiah B. Whitman on a 3.02-acre lot beside Jones Mill Pond.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved, locally well-understood vernacular example of the mansard style. Although simple in its details, it shows a clearer understanding of the Second Empire style than most other buildings in the town. It meets criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Set on about three acres beside Jones Mill Pond in West Barnstable, this house at 210 Maple Street dates to around 1860 and was built for Josiah B. Whitman. It is a two-story French Second Empire building with a square main block under a mansard roof, a central chimney, a stone foundation and a painted clapboard exterior. Ornate pediments and brackets decorate the entry roof, bay window and small porch, and a wing with a peaked roof extends to the southwest. The architect is unknown, and the form records no major alterations. The house is considered significant as a well-preserved example of the mansard style, showing a clearer grasp of Second Empire design than most other buildings in town despite its simple details. Deed records trace the land from the Bodfish family through Jonas Whitman and Lydia P. Crocker to Josiah Whitman in 1874, then to his daughter in 1923.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"French Second Empire (mansard style)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good, with no major alterations, no outbuildings, and the building has not been moved. It is in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.345929-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/7890/63789055/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/87000236.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000236/bc563842f6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000236/bc563842f6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josiah_Whitman_House,_West_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:Josiah_Whitman_House,_West_Barnstable_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789055","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_B._Whitman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290411"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/whitman-josiah-b-house-87000236/"}