{"nrhp_refnum":"89000527","name":"Beechwood","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"495 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.077300629000035,"lon":-72.03784728399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Stick style house at 495 Main Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts, built in 1868 as a residence, with a barn/carriage house outbuilding. The architect is unknown, and it now serves as offices.","why_significant":"The house is tied to the mid-19th-century real estate development of Southbridge and is an early, stylish example of Stick style design. It was one of the first houses near Main and South streets, an area that later became an upper class residential district. It retains integrity of setting, location, materials, workmanship, design, feeling and association.","narrative":"Beechwood, at 495 Main Street in Southbridge, is a clapboard house built in 1868 in the Stick style. Jedidiah Marcy, a descendant of the town's first settler, Moses Marcy, built it as a wedding gift for his granddaughter, using wood from nearby Marcy Woods. It was considered one of the most beautiful estates in Worcester County. The house has a high pitched roof with a jerkinhead gable, bargeboard, polychrome roof slating and an asymmetrical facade. Paneled ornament around some ground floor windows is unusual and may reflect English Gothic influence. The wrap-around porch is massive, with proportions resembling Italianate porches of earlier decades. It was among the first houses near Main and South streets, where the area later developed into an upper class residential neighborhood. Set on a landscaped lot of about one acre with large trees, it remains in excellent condition, is now used as offices, and keeps a strong 19th-century feeling.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by Jedidiah Marcy; architect unknown","architectural_style":"Stick style (Victorian)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is offices; condition is described as excellent, with no major alterations and not moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.235116-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7935/63793565/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000527.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000527/f26b006d94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000527/f26b006d94-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beechwood,_Southbridge_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beechwood,_Southbridge_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793565","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechwood_(Southbridge,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4879680"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/beechwood-89000527/"}