{"nrhp_refnum":"89001523","name":"Wellington, Benjamin, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"56 Whittier St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.41342483300008,"lon":-71.24137733399994,"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 Federal-style residential house at 56 Whittier Street (also given as Whittier Avenue) in Waltham, Massachusetts, built about 1810 by an unknown architect. It stands on a hillock surrounded by modern residential development.","why_significant":"The form argues the house is the nucleus of an early 19th-century Trapelo Road farm and one of Waltham's very few \"brickender\" Federal houses. It is the only brickender in the city with twin-linked chimneys at each end. It is also tied to the Wellington family, prominent in 18th- and 19th-century Waltham history, and to the city's agricultural history.","narrative":"Built around 1810, this Federal-style house at 56 Whittier Street in Waltham is the core of an early 19th-century farm on Trapelo Road. It is a substantial five-bay by three-bay block with shingle and brick walls, and it is one of the city's few \"brickender\" Federal houses. It is the only one in Waltham with twin-linked chimneys at each end. A fluted Tuscan-columned porch with slatwork railings wraps the south and east sides. A two-story gabled ell on the northeast corner appears to date from the late 19th century, and a modern addition sits at the northwest corner. The farm was the most westerly of the old Trapelo estates. It passed from the Fiske family to the Bridges, then to Deacon Isaac Stern and his descendants, and finally to Benjamin Wellington through his wife Mary. It stayed in the Wellington family until the early 20th century, when a dairy farm operated there. The land was subdivided for suburban housing after World War II. The house is valued for its design and its farming and family associations.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is residential, the same as its original use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.000796-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/7916/63791628/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001523.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001523/c4f57c1c59-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001523/c4f57c1c59-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalthamMA_BenjaminWellingtonHouse.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_BenjaminWellingtonHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791628","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wellington_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4889368"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/wellington-benjamin-house-89001523/"}