{"nrhp_refnum":"89001331","name":"Pratt-Faxon House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"75 Faxon Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.241708868000046,"lon":-70.99688596699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Federal style cape-type single family house at 75 Faxon Lane in Quincy, Massachusetts, built around 1806 by an unknown architect.","why_significant":"The house is described as one of only two intact Federal period capes in Quincy, the other being the Noah Curtis House. It survives almost unaltered and is one of the few reminders of Quincy's 18th century character as a community of dispersed farmsteads. It was the homestead of the farm Job Faxon bought from Thomas Pratt in 1812.","narrative":"Located at 75 Faxon Lane in Quincy, this one-story cape was built around 1806 as the homestead of a large farm. Job Faxon bought the farm from Thomas Pratt in 1812, and the property remained in the Faxon family as late as 1966. The farm was subdivided in the late 19th century, and the surrounding land was later filled with small Colonial Revival capes in the 1920s and 1930s. The house has a large ridge roof pierced by a big chimney, a clapboard facade with a central entrance and two multi-paned windows on each side, a low granite foundation, windows set tight under the eaves, and simple pilasters framing the door. A small enclosed porch and attached garage were added in the early twentieth century. It was listed as one of Quincy's few well-preserved Federal period capes and as a rare surviving reminder of the community's earlier farmstead landscape. It is still used as a single family home.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is a single family dwelling; condition is described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.620242-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7924/63792410/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001331.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001331/a744017696-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001331/a744017696-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pratt-Faxon_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sswonk</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:Pratt-Faxon_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792410","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt-Faxon_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7238726"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/pratt-faxon-house-89001331/"}