{"nrhp_refnum":"89001370","name":"Nightengale House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"24 Quincy St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.24245238900005,"lon":-71.00587831999997,"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 wood-frame house at 24 Quincy Street in southwest Quincy, Massachusetts, built about 1855 in a blend of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. It now serves as a two-family residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is among the best preserved residences of its period in southwest Quincy. It is a well-executed vernacular example of the transition from Greek Revival to Gothic Revival style, and one of few such workers' cottages to survive without severe alterations. It meets Criterion C at the local level.","narrative":"Built around 1855 at 24 Quincy Street in southwest Quincy, this one-and-a-half story wood-clapboard house reflects the shift in mid-19th-century taste from Greek Revival to Gothic Revival design. Its five-bay, gable-roofed form carries steeply pitched dormers and pointed arched windows under the end gables, alongside Greek Revival corner pilasters, a wide frieze board, and an entrance framed by narrow sidelights under a plain entablature. The foundation and entrance steps are granite. The house is one of few workers' cottages of its type in South and West Quincy to survive without severe alterations. It was probably built for Thomas J. Nightengale, a carpenter, and later passed to his son Jerimiah, a farmer. The street grew mainly after 1870, when granite-quarry workers, many of them Scandinavian immigrants, settled the neighborhood. Listed for its architecture at the local level, the house is now a two-family residence in good condition, with a one-story rear addition and a twentieth-century garage.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (with Gothic Revival features)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition good; present use is a two-family residence, originally a single-family dwelling. Only a one-story rear addition is noted as a major alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.390745-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7924/63792437/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001370.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001370/2c217ab5e2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001370/2c217ab5e2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nightengale_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:Nightengale_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792437","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightengale_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7033787"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/nightengale-house-89001370/"}