{"nrhp_refnum":"89001486","name":"Martin, Aaron, Houses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"188--194 Adams St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.36425870800008,"lon":-71.24120596499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of double houses at 188-190 and 192-194 Adams Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, built between 1892 and 1900 on the South Side. They are clapboard residential buildings in Queen Anne/Colonial Revival style, architect unknown.","why_significant":"The houses are argued to be well-preserved, early examples of the four-square form with vestigial Queen Anne trim. They also reflect accelerated South Side residential construction fueled by the prosperity of the American Waltham Watch Company and improved streetcar links.","narrative":"Two double houses at 188-190 and 192-194 Adams Street in Waltham's South Side were built between 1892 and 1900 and remain in residential use. Each has a boxy form under a hip roof with double-hip dormers, clapboard siding, and a pedimented front porch with turned posts and spool-work transoms. Windows on the three-bay main facades are fully framed and pedimented, with incised floral decoration. No major alterations are recorded, and the condition is good. The houses are valued as early, well-preserved examples of the four-square form with vestigial Queen Anne trim. They also reflect a period of rapid house building on the South Side, driven by the prosperity of the American Waltham Watch Company and by electrified streetcar service. The land was sold in 1892 to Aaron L. Martin, a watch company employee who lived nearby on Moody Street. The architect is unknown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition good; residential use, with no major alterations recorded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.255867-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/3/7922/63792203/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001486.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001486/a75fd932ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001486/a75fd932ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waltham_MA_Aaron_Martin_Houses.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waltham_MA_Aaron_Martin_Houses.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792203","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Martin_Houses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4662245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/martin-aaron-houses-89001486/"}