{"nrhp_refnum":"89001352","name":"House at 25 High School Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"25 High School Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.245277533000035,"lon":-70.99881673899995,"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-and-a-half story Greek Revival wood-frame house at 25 High School Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts, built about the 1850s by an unknown architect. It was originally a single-family home and now serves as a dentist's office.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the best-preserved examples in Quincy of a modest Greek Revival cottage, a type that was common in the mid-nineteenth century. It retains integrity of materials, design, location and feeling. It is significant at the local level under Criterion C.","narrative":"Built probably in the 1850s, this one-and-a-half story house on High School Avenue in Quincy is a Greek Revival cottage with a sidehall plan. It is sheathed in clapboards and rests on a Quincy granite foundation. Its details include a closed pediment, corner pilasters, stylized pediments over the windows, and a door with sidelights to the floor framed by flat pilasters and a pediment. A side wing from the late nineteenth century and a twentieth-century roof dormer are the major alterations, and neither is judged to harm its character. David W. Perry owned the house in 1876, and the Perry family kept it until the late 1910s, when it was sold to Edward J. Desmond, a blacksmith. Once a residence and now a dentist's office, the house is considered one of the best-preserved of the many similar cottages built in Quincy in the mid-nineteenth century, and it was listed for that architectural value.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; currently used as a dentist's office, originally a single-family dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.020427-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7924/63792431/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001352.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001352/66300a70ad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001352/66300a70ad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_25_High_School_Avenue.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:House_at_25_High_School_Avenue.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792431","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_25_High_School_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914176"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/house-at-25-high-school-avenue-89001352/"}