{"nrhp_refnum":"89001967","name":"Freegrace Marble Farm Historic District","other_names":["Dona Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"80 Burbank Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sutton","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.16274000000004,"lon":-71.74992548480654,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 63-acre farm historic district at 80 Burbank Road in northeastern Sutton, Massachusetts, with a late 18th-century farmhouse, 19th-century barn and outbuildings, stone-walled fields, and a private family cemetery.","why_significant":"The farm was founded by Freegrace Marble and shows Sutton's agricultural development from subsistence farming through commercial dairying and part-time farming. Its farmhouse, outbuilding cluster, field patterns and Marble family cemetery survive, and the property has archaeological potential, including possible prehistoric and early historic remains.","narrative":"Marble Farm is a 63-acre working landscape in northeastern Sutton, Massachusetts, centered on the intersection of Burbank and Sibley Roads. It includes a clapboarded farmhouse probably rebuilt in the last quarter of the 18th century, a barn, an equipment shed and a smaller barn, all likely 19th century. Stone walls mark fields that follow changes in soil type, and a private cemetery holds about thirty stones, including those of Marble descendants. Freegrace Marble founded the farm, and his son Malachi owned it in the late 1700s. Later owners included Oliver Leland, who bought it in 1827, and the Leland family until 1895. The farm reflects changing local agriculture, from subsistence farming to commercial dairying and part-time farming in the 20th century. The house shows evidence of an earlier house on the site, and the grounds may hold prehistoric and early historic archaeological remains, including the sites of a demolished house, stockade and distillery.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; No Style (vernacular farmhouse)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently used for haying and lumbering; the farmhouse and outbuildings remain extant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:12:59.926721-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7971/63797198/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001967.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001967/b910ea0d95-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001967/b910ea0d95-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freegrace_Marble_Farm,_Sutton_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freegrace_Marble_Farm,_Sutton_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797198","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegrace_Marble_Farm_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5500886"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/freegrace-marble-farm-historic-district-89001967/"}