{"nrhp_refnum":"89000610","name":"Parker, Edmund, Jr., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"287 Cambridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.45624529200006,"lon":-71.15935823399997,"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 two and one-half story dwelling at 287 Cambridge Street in Winchester, Massachusetts, built circa 1826 according to deed research. It is a Federal-Greek Revival transitional house on a .33 acre lot, architect unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an important example of the Late Federal style in Winchester, reflecting the gradual move from Federal to Greek Revival domestic architecture. It is also tied to the Parker family, which owned land around Pond and Cambridge Streets since at least 1798.","narrative":"Built around 1826 at 287 Cambridge Street in Winchester, this two and one-half story house shows the slow shift from Federal to Greek Revival design in American homes. It has a rectangular plan and a five-bay facade typical of a Federal-period farmhouse, with a center entrance under a one-story Doric portico with fluted columns. Later changes include wood shingle siding and window sash altered to two-over-two. The house was built by Edmund Parker Jr., whose family came from Woburn and amassed large landholdings around Pond and Cambridge Streets, an area that became known as the Parker neighborhood. His brother-in-law Dana Fay, a local builder, may have constructed it. Ownership passed from Parker to David Adams, then to Edward Russell in 1885, and to a single family from 1924. Its architecture and its link to an early landowning family are the reasons it was recognized. Similar local examples include the Robert Bacon and Charles Russell houses.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; Dana Fay, a local builder who married Mary Parker, may have built it","architectural_style":"Transitional Federal-Greek Revival (Late Federal)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; in present use as a dwelling, as it was originally.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.277319-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7916/63791630/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000610.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000610/9259ed77d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000610/9259ed77d6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterMA_EdmundParkerJrHouse.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_EdmundParkerJrHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791630","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Parker_Jr._House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5339722"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/parker-edmund-jr-house-89000610/"}