{"nrhp_refnum":"89001540","name":"Martin, Aaron, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"786 Moody St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.36269106000003,"lon":-71.23847873399995,"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 two-story wood-frame Queen Anne style house at 786 Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, built in the early 1890s and still used as a dwelling. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house was built for Aaron Martin, a machinist at the American Waltham Watch Company and a real estate speculator, and reflects the company's development of Waltham's South Side in the later 19th century. It is also one of Waltham's fuller examples of the Queen Anne style and remains well preserved, without artificial siding.","narrative":"Standing on a large corner lot on lower Moody Street near Crescent Street in Waltham, this two-story wood-frame house dates to the early 1890s and is still a dwelling. Its boxy hip-roofed form is hidden behind lively Queen Anne details: a front porch with cut gingerbread trim, an oriel with an incised floral window surround and dentils, three two-story bays divided by saw-cut shingle aprons, and an off-center tower with eyebrow windows and a bell-shaped roof. The house was built for Aaron Martin, a machinist with the American Waltham Watch Company, who appears in local directories at this address in 1893. It belongs to a small group of Queen Anne houses built for skilled watch company workers on the South Side, and it is one of the few not on Crescent Street and not covered with artificial siding. It is ranked among the best preserved domestic Queen Anne houses in the city.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is a dwelling; no major alterations and no outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.299846-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/7918/63791829/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001540.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001540/2abbdb58db-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001540/2abbdb58db-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_House.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_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791829","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Martin_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4662244"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/martin-aaron-house-89001540/"}