{"nrhp_refnum":"89000739","name":"Cowdry, Jonas, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"61 Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.504989790000025,"lon":-71.08509197299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style farmhouse at 61 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts, built around 1833 and still used as a dwelling. It sits on about 1.5 acres behind a fieldstone wall.","why_significant":"The house is a well-preserved example of the many three-quarter Federal houses in Wakefield, and its south door surround is unusually fine. It also belonged to the Cowdry family, early settlers of the Redding area, who kept it for nearly a century. The nomination argues it meets Criterion C at the local level.","narrative":"Set back from Prospect Street on a raised lot behind a fieldstone wall, this Federal farmhouse in Wakefield, Massachusetts, dates to about 1833. It rises two and a half stories, is three bays wide and has a large central chimney. Its most notable feature is the south door surround, a finely proportioned entablature with sidelights of the kind favored by housewrights of the period. Wakefield has an unusually large number of three-quarter houses from the early nineteenth century, and this is a well-preserved example. The house is tied to the Cowdry family, early settlers of the territory then called Redding. Brothers Aaron and Jonas, sons of Nathaniel Cowdry, built this house and the one at 98 Prospect Street at nearly the same time. The family kept the property until about 1900, an unusually long continuity. The house is still a dwelling, in good condition, with two northern additions and three non-contributing outbuildings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is a dwelling, with two additions on the north side and three non-contributing outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.371286-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/45/7907/63790745/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000739.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000739/bee8573931-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000739/bee8573931-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_JonasCowdryHouse.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:WakefieldMA_JonasCowdryHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790745","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Cowdry_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6272049"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/cowdry-jonas-house-89000739/"}