{"nrhp_refnum":"89000604","name":"Johnson-Thompson House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 Ridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.44845366700008,"lon":-71.17611383099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A circa 1750 Early Georgian farmhouse at 201 Ridge Street, Winchester, Massachusetts, with a gambrel roof and a later kitchen ell. Its architect is unknown, and it sits on 1.25 acres on a low hill.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the earliest surviving structure in Winchester and a good example of the transition from Colonial to Georgian building practices. It is also tied to the Johnson and Thompson families, prominent in local affairs from the earliest settlement, and has stayed in the same family's descendants for generations.","narrative":"Built around 1750 at 201 Ridge Street, this farmhouse is the oldest surviving structure in Winchester. It has a gambrel roof, boxed eaves, a two-room central hall plan and a three-run stair, features that show the shift from Colonial to Georgian building practices in a rural setting. A framed opening in the cellar marks where a massive central chimney once stood before twin rear-wall chimneys replaced it. A kitchen ell and shed were added in 1837, and rooms were built over the kitchen in 1916. Deeds refer to a house on the land as early as 1713, but the present building shows no physical evidence of an earlier date. The Johnson family, led by early Woburn figure Major William Johnson, held the property for generations. It passed to the Thompson family in 1858 through marriage, and the owner's descendants have kept it since. Only one other eighteenth-century house survives in Winchester.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Georgian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good, and the property is in use as a dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.707849-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7916/63791612/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000604.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000604/7a73fb5906-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000604/7a73fb5906-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterMA_JohnsonThompsonHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterMA_JohnsonThompsonHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791612","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson-Thompson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6268154"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/johnson-thompson-house-89000604/"}