{"nrhp_refnum":"89001335","name":"Curtis, Noah, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"313 Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.23391530400005,"lon":-70.99966955999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story, gable-roofed Federal style Cape house at 313 Franklin Street on Penn's Hill in South Quincy, Massachusetts, built about 1795 by shoemaker Noah Curtis. Architect unknown.","why_significant":"It is among the few well-preserved Federal period houses in Quincy and the oldest Federal Cape in the city to survive without severe alterations. It is also associated with Noah Curtis, a pioneer of Quincy's boot and shoe industry in the early nineteenth century.","narrative":"Built about 1795 on Penn's Hill in South Quincy, this Federal period Cape at 313 Franklin Street was the home of Noah Curtis, a pioneer in the town's boot and shoe business. Curtis began making shoes at nineteen, manufactured them for sale by 1794, and added boots after 1802. In those early decades shoemaking was done in homes and attached workshops, with work distributed by a central manufacturer. His son Thomas later ran a shoe factory as the industry centralized. The one-and-a-half story, gable-roofed house has clapboard walls, a simple cornice board, an off-center projecting gabled entrance, a hipped-roof bay at the east end and a gabled rear ell. Its roofline suggests it may once have had a single-room plan. It reached its present form by the 1870s, and a granite post and wall along Franklin Street may date from the early nineteenth century. It is regarded as the oldest Federal Cape in Quincy to survive without severe alterations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; built by Noah Curtis","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is a single family dwelling; condition 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 02:13:00.974113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7926/63792665/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001335.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001335/cab094967c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001335/cab094967c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noah_Curtis_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:Noah_Curtis_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792665","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Curtis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715779"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/curtis-noah-house-89001335/"}