{"nrhp_refnum":"89001513","name":"Sanderson, Nathan, II, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 Lincoln St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.39358640200004,"lon":-71.24273600999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story, five-bay Greek Revival dwelling at 111 Lincoln Street, Waltham, Massachusetts, reportedly built c1698 and moved to its present site and remodeled c1816.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a unique architectural type in Waltham, a wide-gable Greek Revival house usually found in the Merrimack Valley, created by a c1816 remodeling of an older house. It meets criterion C, and the exception to criterion B for moved houses. It is also tied to the Sanderson family and a long-running blacksmith shop.","narrative":"This house at 111 Lincoln Street in Waltham is a clapboard-clad, five-bay Greek Revival dwelling with a gable end facing the street and treated as a classical pediment. A four-column Doric porch with fluted columns spans the facade, and the center entrance is framed by full-length sidelights. Tradition holds that the building began as a 1½-story cottage built about 1698 by James Cutting on the Lyman Estate grounds. Around 1816 Nathan Sanderson II reportedly moved it to this site at the time of his marriage, added a second story, and turned the roof 90 degrees to create the wide-gable form. The result combines a traditional center-entrance plan with the newly popular gable-front orientation, a type most common in the Merrimack Valley and unique in Waltham. A blacksmith shop associated with the Sandersons once stood nearby, and family members occupied the house into the twentieth century. The house retains good integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; reportedly built by James Cutting c1698","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is dwelling; condition described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.085964-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7909/63790934/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001513.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001513/822410d26d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001513/822410d26d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathan_Sanderson_II_House,_Waltham_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathan_Sanderson_II_House,_Waltham_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790934","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Sanderson_II_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6969325"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/sanderson-nathan-ii-house-89001513/"}