{"nrhp_refnum":"89001237","name":"Langmaid Terrace","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"359--365 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Somerville","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.39420448000004,"lon":-71.09599631899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Langmaid Terrace is a brick Queen Anne apartment house at 359-365 Broadway, on the corner of Fenwick Street in the Winter Hill area of Somerville, Massachusetts. It was built in 1892-1893 by an unknown architect.","why_significant":"The building is cited as an architecturally interesting example of the Queen Anne style, with towers, gables, stepped parapets and brick and terra cotta detailing. It also reflects the late-19th-century growth of Somerville, when apartment houses were built to house a rapidly increasing population. It is said to retain integrity and to be significant at the local level.","narrative":"Langmaid Terrace is a brick apartment house on the north side of Broadway at Fenwick Street in Somerville's Winter Hill neighborhood. City directories show it was built by 1893. The 1892 directory lists no residents at the address, and all 1893 residents had moved there from other locations. The architect is unknown. The building shows many Queen Anne features: pitched roofs with gables and parapets, mansard areas, a pyramid-shaped tower at one end and a rounded turret with a copper spire at the other. Dormers, stepped parapets, brick corbelling and terra cotta string courses add variety to the slate-roofed structure. It was built when apartment houses were rising across Somerville to house a growing population. Most surviving late 19th and early 20th century buildings along this stretch of Broadway are apartment houses, and Langmaid Terrace remains among the most architecturally interesting. It is well preserved and has had no major alterations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good, with no major alterations, and the building is in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.066517-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/7918/63791827/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001237.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001237/b1849af646-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001237/b1849af646-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Myersj","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langmaid_Terrace_Sign.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Myersj</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langmaid_Terrace_Sign.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791827","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmaid_Terrace","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6486340"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/langmaid-terrace-89001237/"}