{"nrhp_refnum":"89001953","name":"Baxter-King House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"270 Adams St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.25335111800007,"lon":-71.01604303299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A single-family Italianate house at 270 Adams Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, built around 1860 by James Baxter Jr. on a 3.1-acre lot, with a later carriage house.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the most elaborate and best high-style Italianate house in Quincy. It is also tied to the Baxter and King families, who developed Adams Street as an area of residential estates in the later 19th century. It meets Criteria A and C at the local level.","narrative":"Set well back from Adams Street on a 3.1-acre lot, this L-shaped wood-clapboard villa was built around 1860 by James Baxter Jr. on land his family had held since 1785. Its dominant feature is a square Italianate tower between two gable-roofed wings, topped by a low hip roof with paired brackets and modillions. Other details include an elaborate entry porch, hooded arched windows with drip moldings, pedimented double dormers with decorative roundels, and an octagonal tower on the Sturtevant Road side. A gable-roofed carriage house with a cupola is later and noncontributing. The house passed to Baxter's daughter Helen, who married Theophilus King, a Boston leather businessman and Granite Trust Company president, and later to their son Delecevare King, also a bank leader. The house is described as the finest high-style Italianate residence in Quincy and a well-preserved example of the estates along Adams Street.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"James Baxter Junior (builder); architect unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is a single-family residence; condition is listed as fair.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.981209-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7925/63792584/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001953.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001953/52ad00fe82-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001953/52ad00fe82-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baxter-King_House_Quincy_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baxter-King_House_Quincy_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792584","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter%E2%80%93King_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4873827"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/baxter-king-house-89001953/"}