{"nrhp_refnum":"89001337","name":"Record, Jonathan Dexter, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"39--41 Grandview Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.26399999700004,"lon":-71.01989864199999,"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 two-family Queen Anne house at 39-41 Grandview Avenue on Wollaston Hill in Quincy, Massachusetts, built in the early 1890s for Jonathan D. Record. It is still used as a two-family dwelling.","why_significant":"The form describes it as the most elaborate and best preserved example of the substantial two-family residences built at Wollaston Hill in the late nineteenth century. It is tied to the development of Quincy's first affluent residential neighborhood for Boston commuters. It retains integrity of design, location, materials, feeling and association, and meets Criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Built in the early 1890s on Wollaston Hill in Quincy, this two-family house at 39-41 Grandview Avenue was commissioned by Jonathan D. Record, a Boston dry plates manufacturer. It is among the largest Queen Anne houses in the Wollaston Heights neighborhood and carries the period's status symbol, a tall three-story corner tower. Although it holds two households, it was designed to resemble the substantial single-family houses around it. Its complex roof, asymmetrical silhouette, varied wall materials, bay windows and dormers are typical of the style. A two-story entrance porch with turned posts and arched openings was filled in during the 1950s, yet the house remains well preserved. Wollaston Heights was marketed from 1869 as a status community for affluent Quincy businessmen and Boston commuters, with free railroad passes offered to lot buyers. Later owners included a hides dealer and a naval architect with the Electric Boat Company. The house is valued as the most elaborate surviving example of its type in the neighborhood.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; built for Jonathan D. Record, a Boston dry plates manufacturer","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is a two-family dwelling. The porch was filled in during the 1950s, which the form says is not a major loss of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.82226-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7926/63792600/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001337.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001337/93107acda6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001337/93107acda6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jonathan_Dexter_Record_House_Quincy_MA.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:Jonathan_Dexter_Record_House_Quincy_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792600","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Dexter_Record_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6272945"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/record-jonathan-dexter-house-89001337/"}