{"nrhp_refnum":"89000592","name":"Hartwell, Samuel C., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"79 Elm St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.07289906900007,"lon":-72.03478866899997,"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 brick Queen Anne style house at 79 Elm Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts, built about 1870-1878 for Dr. Samuel C. Hartwell on the site of an earlier house. Architect unknown.","why_significant":"The house is an early and unusually well-built example of the Queen Anne style in Southbridge, with horizontal emphasis, asymmetrical massing and two turrets. It is also tied to the town's mid-nineteenth century residential development around the Town Hall and Congregational Church. It is linked to Dr. Hartwell, a physician, Civil War surgeon, Town Moderator and state senator.","narrative":"Brick walls, two turrets and a patterned polychrome slate roof give this house at 79 Elm Street in Southbridge a picturesque outline. Built between about 1870 and 1878, it is an early example of the Queen Anne style in the town, notable for its horizontal emphasis and high-quality construction at a time when Victorian Gothic designs were just becoming popular. Details include contrasting stone coursing, glazed brick arched panels over the windows, a projecting porch with stickwork ornament and heavy ornamental chimneys. The house replaced an earlier dwelling, built in 1818 and later used as a parsonage, that had been occupied by Dr. Hartwell and his father. Dr. Samuel Cyrus Hartwell (1820-1885) was a physician, a Civil War surgeon, longtime Town Moderator, a supporter of the public library and a state senator. Its massing resembles the neighboring Congregational Church and Town Hall, and it helped form an elegant neighborhood of large houses on spacious lawns. It remains in excellent, largely unaltered condition and now serves as church offices.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is offices of a Catholic church; originally residential. Condition is 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 02:13:01.44154-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7935/63793549/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000592.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000592/a5898299a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000592/a5898299a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_C._Hartwell_House,_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:Samuel_C._Hartwell_House,_Southbridge_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793549","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_C._Hartwell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7411035"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/hartwell-samuel-c-house-89000592/"}