{"nrhp_refnum":"89000613","name":"Sharon House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"403 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.448254967000025,"lon":-71.13403474199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story Greek Revival dwelling at 403 Main Street, Winchester, Massachusetts, built circa 1835 by an unknown architect, with a two-stage rear ell that may have been a shoe shop.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving structure tied to Winchester's shoe industry, which dominated the town's economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The rear ell may be one of the shoe shops recorded by a local historian. It is described as one of the last traces of a once-thriving local industry.","narrative":"Sharon House, at 403 Main Street in Winchester, Massachusetts, is a two-and-a-half-story Greek Revival house built around 1835. Its gable roof runs parallel to the street and has short returns, the windows use six-over-six sash, and the trabeated entrance sits slightly left of center. The house is covered in feathered clapboards and sits right at the sidewalk. A two-stage ell at the rear is set at about thirty degrees to the main block, matching an angle in the property line. That ell may have been a shoe shop, possibly one of those a local historian attributed to Calvin Richardson, and the main house may originally have been attached to it. The lot was once part of the Black Horse Tavern property. Mary Ann Sharon bought the house in 1846, and it stayed in her family until 1940. It was listed for its link to the shoe industry, which employed many Winchester households, with shoe shops attached to dozens of houses in the 1830s. Few such structures survive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Present use is a dwelling; condition is described as very good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.893809-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/7920/63792096/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000613.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000613/2bf01a9f23-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000613/2bf01a9f23-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinchesterMA_SharonHouse.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_SharonHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792096","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_House_(Winchester,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7490097"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/sharon-house-89000613/"}