{"nrhp_refnum":"89001314","name":"House at 32 Bayview Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"32 Bayview Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.27160199200006,"lon":-70.95017642699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family Queen Anne summer house at 32 Bayview Avenue on a corner lot in Hough's Neck, Quincy, Massachusetts, built in the 1880s with wood shingle walls and a view of Quincy Bay.","why_significant":"It is described as the best preserved of a handful of late 19th century houses surviving from the time Hough's Neck was a prosperous summer resort. It is also called the only well-preserved Queen Anne-style summer house in Quincy. The criteria statement cites Criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built in the 1880s as a summer residence, this Queen Anne house sits on a large corner lot in the Hough's Neck section of Quincy, with a view of Quincy Bay. It is a simple example of the style, with projecting gables, solid bargeboards and a large balustraded porch that wraps around three sides, supported by square posts and simple brackets. Reshingling and some window replacement followed a fire in 1941, but the building's architectural integrity remains intact. The house is regarded as the best preserved of a few late nineteenth-century houses left from the period when Hough's Neck was a busy summer resort. James Mears began developing the Great Hill section for summer homes in 1881 and was the probable builder. Steamers, a horse car railway and an electrified street railway in 1888 fueled the area's growth. The house is considered significant for its association with that resort development and for its design, and it is still a single-family home.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; James Mears was the probable builder","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition good; in present use as a single-family residence. Repairs were made after a 1941 fire, including reshingling and replacement of several windows.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.739757-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/94/7925/63792594/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001314.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001314/bdf9f70d42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001314/bdf9f70d42-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_32_Bayview_Avenue_Quincy_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</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:House_at_32_Bayview_Avenue_Quincy_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792594","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_32_Bayview_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914246"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/house-at-32-bayview-avenue-89001314/"}