{"nrhp_refnum":"89001563","name":"Sanderson, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"562 Lexington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.39496024600004,"lon":-71.23695333199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Federal farmhouse at 562 Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, built in 1826 by John Sanderson. It is clapboard-clad with a brick rear wall and sits on a major road facing a large open field.","why_significant":"It is one of the few surviving Federal farmhouses in Waltham and the only one with a rear wall of brick. For almost a hundred years it was home to members of the Sanderson family, prominent in the Piety Corner area since the seventeenth century. It is tied to the city's agricultural history and retains good integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1826, this Federal farmhouse at 562 Lexington Street in Waltham is one of five Federal farmhouses in the Piety Corner area and the only one in the city with a brick rear wall. It is a two-story clapboard building under a low gable roof, with a symmetrical five-bay facade, a projecting hip-roof porch at the entry, 6/1 sash windows, two rear chimneys, and a granite foundation. The land belonged to Jonathan Sanderson, Sr., an early settler of Piety Corner, and passed through several generations before John Sanderson replaced an older house with this one. John died at sea in 1831, and his brother Charles bought the estate in 1837. Sanderson family members lived here for almost a hundred years, until Lowell Sanderson died in 1915. The house reflects the area's farming past and the family's long local prominence, and it keeps its original location, setting, and design character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; reportedly built by John Sanderson","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is described as good; present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.850959-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7913/63791324/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001563.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001563/d9d8a72f19-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001563/d9d8a72f19-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WalthamMA_JohnSandersonHouse.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_JohnSandersonHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791324","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sanderson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6256631"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/sanderson-john-house-89001563/"}