{"nrhp_refnum":"89001510","name":"Whitney-Farrington-Cook House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"385 Trapelo Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.39835156300006,"lon":-71.21070858599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A c. 1858 Italianate farmhouse at 385 Trapelo Road in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. It is a clapboard house with an unknown architect, used as a private residence.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house reflects Trapelo Road's development as the main transportation corridor in northern Waltham from the 17th to the 20th century. It is also a well-preserved, well-sited vernacular Italianate farmhouse. Its 3-bay, center-hall plan is a locally rare variation, since side-hall or irregular plans are far more common.","narrative":"Set well back from Trapelo Road on a tree-shaded one-acre lot, this c. 1858 farmhouse in Waltham is a clapboard Italianate building with a three-bay by two-bay, center-hall plan. Its main facade has a Tuscan-columned entrance porch, a doorway with multipane sidelights and pilasters, and six-over-six wood windows with raised moldings. The gable ends have return eaves, and a one-story ell extends to the rear. The land belonged to the Hastings family before the 1820s, and Abel Farrington bought the property in 1858, when the present house may have been built. It stayed with the Farringtons until 1887, when it was sold to William E. Cook. Local records leave the early history uncertain, including a claim that the house once served as a smallpox hospital on Pigeon Hill, which the nomination finds little evidence to support. The house was listed for its link to the road's development and as a rare center-hall Italianate example in the city.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Private residence in good condition, 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 02:13:01.799321-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/77/7917/63791777/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001510.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001510/f07656be90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001510/f07656be90-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalthamMA_WhitneyFarringtonCookHouse.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:WalthamMA_WhitneyFarringtonCookHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791777","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney%E2%80%93Farrington%E2%80%93Cook_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996664"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/whitney-farrington-cook-house-89001510/"}