{"nrhp_refnum":"88001455","name":"Bray, Thomas, Farm","other_names":["Heather Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"280 Weir Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yarmouth","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.701722108500036,"lon":-70.20731813769629,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 10.3-acre farmstead at 280 Weir Road in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, centered on a one-story-and-garret half cape dwelling built ca. 1720, with early 20th-century additions, outbuildings, stone-walled fields and orchards.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a representative small 18th and 19th century farmstead later converted to seasonal use as Cape Cod became a resort region. The house is an unusually intact early example of the half cape, the most typical regional house form. Together with the fields and 1920s additions, it shows the persistence, decline and recreational conversion of small farms. It is also considered to have high archaeological potential.","narrative":"Set on 10.3 acres along Weir Road in Yarmouth, this Cape Cod farmstead centers on a wood-frame half cape built around 1720, possibly earlier. The house keeps its original raised paneling, doors, hardware and fireplace cranes, and its chimney sits off-axis from the entry, a plan found in other Yarmouth examples. Fieldstone walls and old apple, pear, peach and plum orchards run north toward Mill Pond. The Bray and Crowell families held the land for more than 150 years, farming it until the 1860s. In 1922 new owners turned it into a duck hunting lodge and summer home, adding a kitchen wing, a garage built from timbers of an earlier barn, and several small outbuildings by 1926. The property was listed for showing how a small farm lasted through settlement, decline and revival as a tourist landscape, and for one of the region's earliest surviving half capes. Prehistoric and historical archaeological remains are also considered likely.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1720-1926","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/New England; Colonial/Georgian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with agricultural fields; the form says seasonal residential use has continued since the 1920s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.249755-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7939/63793931/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/88001455.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001455/640aa10a41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001455/640aa10a41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DavidAFinkelstein","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ThomasBrayFarm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DavidAFinkelstein</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:ThomasBrayFarm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793931","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bray_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7787853"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/bray-thomas-farm-88001455/"}