{"nrhp_refnum":"89001578","name":"Colburn, Gilbert, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110--112 Crescent St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.36993768000008,"lon":-71.24092224199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A double residence at 110-112 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, built around 1870 in the Italianate style for Gilbert Colburn on a lot bought from the American Waltham Watch Company.","why_significant":"It is an essentially intact example of a post-Civil War Italianate double worker's house built for American Waltham Watch Company workers, a type usually found altered elsewhere on the south side. It keeps its original clapboard siding and 2/2 sash and has strong ties to the Watch Company's development of the South Side. The form says it meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"Located at 110-112 Crescent Street in Waltham, this double house dates to about 1870 and reflects the housing built for workers of the American Waltham Watch Company. The two-story Italianate building has a five-bay by two-bay main block, a granite foundation and a broad gable roof. Paired entrances sit beneath deep bracketed hoods with scroll brackets carved with a floral motif that also appears on other 1860s and 1870s houses nearby. Two-story octagonal bays flank the entrances. Unlike many neighboring houses of the period, it keeps its original clapboard siding and two-over-two windows. The lot was sold by the Watch Company in 1870 with deed restrictions limiting it to domestic use, and it passed to Gilbert Colburn two days after an earlier buyer purchased it. A later owner, William Colburn, worked for the company. The house is valued as a well-preserved example of a worker's house type usually found altered, and for its links to the South Side's growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is a double residence, with no major alterations and not moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.147104-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7922/63792248/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001578.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001578/7eb6b39cf3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001578/7eb6b39cf3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waltham_MA_Gilbert_Colburn_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_Gilbert_Colburn_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792248","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Colburn_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5560860"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/colburn-gilbert-house-89001578/"}