{"nrhp_refnum":"89000549","name":"Tapin, Eugene, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215 Lebanon Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.05611999700005,"lon":-72.03714068899995,"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 Tudor Revival single-family house at 215 Lebanon Hill Road in Southbridge, Massachusetts, built in 1929 to designs by F. X. Laliberte and Son, with a brick and stucco exterior and a garage outbuilding.","why_significant":"It is one of the few high style Tudor Revival houses in Southbridge and reflects early twentieth century suburban development on the town's rural outskirts. It also shows the socio-economic advancement of the Franco-American community, since it was built by the town's first Franco-American architect and a major builder for a family member.","narrative":"Built in 1929 at 215 Lebanon Hill Road, this Tudor Revival house sits in an outlying suburban part of Southbridge. Its brick and stucco walls carry false half-timbering, an arched doorway with heavy double-leaved doors, and a small gablet above the entrance. The brick red closely matches the red roof tile. An enclosed sunroom on the south side and an open screened porch on the north side are typical of the Laliberte family's residential work. F. X. Laliberte, a major local builder, and his son Oswald, the first Franco-American architect in town, built it for Laliberte's daughter Camille and her husband Eugene Tapin, a music teacher and church organist. The house is one of the few high style Tudor Revival buildings in Southbridge and reflects the Franco-American community's rising fortunes. It also belongs to the gradual suburbanization of formerly rural sections of town during the first half of the twentieth century. It has had no major alterations and remains a residence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"F. X. Laliberte and Son (Oswald Laliberte, architect; F. X. Laliberte, builder)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential, the same as the original use. Condition is described as excellent, with no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.008467-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7935/63793573/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000549.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000549/b8ae5afdb7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000549/b8ae5afdb7-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eugene_Tapin_House,_Southbridge,_MA_-_DSC02635.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eugene_Tapin_House,_Southbridge,_MA_-_DSC02635.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793573","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Tapin_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5407784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/tapin-eugene-house-89000549/"}