{"nrhp_refnum":"89001267","name":"House at 343 Highland Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"343 Highland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Somerville","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.394286101000034,"lon":-71.11604523499994,"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":"A 2 1/2-story Queen Anne-style two-family house at 343 Highland Avenue in northwestern Somerville, Massachusetts, built around 1880 and still used as a two-family residence.","why_significant":"It is a good example of the two-family variety of Queen Anne house, with elaborate jigsaw bargeboard and friezework on its porches. It is one of the best preserved of about twenty similar houses near Davis Square and Somerville Highland Station. It also reflects the 1870s subdivision of the Tufts brickyard for commuter housing.","narrative":"Built around 1880, this two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne house at 343 Highland Avenue in northwestern Somerville was designed as a two-family home and still serves that purpose. Its clapboard walls, paired brackets under the front gable, and modest dentilated window lintels give a simple plan, but the first and second story porches carry elaborate jigsaw bargeboard and friezework. It is described as one of the best conserved of roughly twenty similar two-family houses around Davis Square and the Somerville Highland Station area. The site was part of the Tufts brickyard, which was divided in the 1870s. After that, the area filled quickly with two-family homes aimed at commuters. The house may have been built by Somerville builder A. D. Rice, known for buildings that were plain in plan but richly ornamented. It was recorded as being in excellent condition with no major alterations, and it retains its original location and design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; may be the work of Somerville builder A. D. Rice","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as excellent; present use is a two-family residence; no major alterations; a 20th-century garage is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.653118-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7918/63791823/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001267.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001267/d7bc1d9ad3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001267/d7bc1d9ad3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SomervilleMA_HouseAt343HighlandAve.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:SomervilleMA_HouseAt343HighlandAve.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791823","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_343_Highland_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914255"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/house-at-343-highland-avenue-89001267/"}