{"nrhp_refnum":"89001339","name":"House at 94 Grandview Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"94 Grandview Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.26276553300005,"lon":-71.01840431799997,"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 style house at 94 Grandview Avenue in the Wollaston Heights neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, built around the 1890s. It is a wood-shingled dwelling on a lot of 13,122 square feet.","why_significant":"The house is described as the best preserved of several similar Queen Anne houses in Wollaston Heights, with a corner round tower, complex roof, Palladian gable window and a porch on double columns. It also reflects the growth of Quincy's first affluent suburban neighborhood, where Boston brokers and local businessmen lived and commuted by rail.","narrative":"This single-family house at 94 Grandview Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts, dates to the 1890s and belongs to Wollaston Heights, a neighborhood of large suburban homes laid out on farmland bought by the Wollaston Land Associates in 1869. The area was marketed to affluent Quincy businessmen and Boston commuters, and buyers of house lots received free railroad passes. The house appears to have been built by Horace C. Briggs, a Boston broker, and by 1915 it belonged to Charles A. Alden, also a Boston broker. Both could take the Old Colony Railroad from Wollaston Depot. Architecturally, it is considered the best preserved of several Queen Anne houses in the neighborhood. Its features include a round corner tower, a complex roofline, projections on every elevation, varied windows, tall chimneys, a Palladian window in the gable, and a porch carried on double columns over a granite base. Wood shingles cover the walls, and no major alterations are recorded.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; appears to have been built by Horace C. Briggs","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition reported as good; still used as a single family dwelling, with no major alterations and no outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.001598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/7925/63792596/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001339/fab9cf332b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001339/fab9cf332b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_94_Grandview_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_94_Grandview_Avenue_Quincy_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792596","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_94_Grandview_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914507"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/house-at-94-grandview-avenue-89001339/"}