{"nrhp_refnum":"89001272","name":"Worthen, Daniel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8 Mt. Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Somerville","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.385255217000065,"lon":-71.07808446299998,"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 1 1/2-story, three-bay Gothic Revival house at 8 Mt. Pleasant Street in East Somerville, Massachusetts, built around 1850-1860 as a residence. It has a sidehall plan and is still used as a residence.","why_significant":"The house has unusually well-detailed Gothic trim on an otherwise modest sidehall-plan dwelling, and it is unique in its neighborhood. Its construction represents housing for working and middle-class residents in the increasingly subdivided East Somerville area. The form finds it meets Criteria A and C at the local level, with good integrity.","narrative":"Daniel Worthen's house at 8 Mt. Pleasant Street in East Somerville is a modest 1 1/2-story, three-bay residence built around 1850-1860. Its sidehall plan includes an entrance with glazed sidelights and a transom. What sets it apart is its Gothic Revival detailing: an intact foliated vergeboard and turned drop porch trim give the small house a picturesque quality that is unique in the Mt. Pleasant and Perkins area. The clapboard exterior may have replaced earlier stucco. Mt. Pleasant Street was platted in 1840 as part of a subdivision of the large Stearnes estate. East Somerville, near the narrow peninsula linking Somerville with Charlestown, soon filled with industry, rail lines and housing for Boston businessmen and local laborers. The first owner, Daniel Worthen, was a distiller. The house was listed for its architectural character and for representing working and middle-class housing in this area, and it retains its location, design, setting, materials and workmanship.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good; the house is in present use as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.872025-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7916/63791690/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001272.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001272/37c9f520f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001272/37c9f520f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SomervilleMA_DanielWorthenHouse.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_DanielWorthenHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791690","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Worthen_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5219127"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/worthen-daniel-house-89001272/"}