{"nrhp_refnum":"90000009","name":"Brae-Burn Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Brae Burn and Windmere Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.34340193350005,"lon":-71.23938160025622,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district in the Auburndale village of Newton, Massachusetts, centered on Brae Burn Road and Windermere Road. It was laid out in 1911 and contains 26 houses built mainly between the 1910s and 1930s.","why_significant":"The district is significant as a small, early subdivision in Auburndale, which saw less rapid 20th-century suburbanization than other Newton villages. It includes one of the city's finest collections of moderately scaled Craftsman style houses, many designed by the Boston firm Gay and Proctor. It meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"Brae-Burn is a compact residential subdivision in the Auburndale village of Newton, Massachusetts, laid out in 1911 along Brae Burn Road and Windermere Road, which together form a U shape. About half of its moderate-sized lots were built on by 1920, and the rest followed in the 1920s and 1930s. Twenty-six houses make up the district. Its distinction lies in a collection of Craftsman style houses, many with unusual and well-detailed designs, mixed with more standard Colonial Revival homes. Most houses built between 1911 and 1916 were erected for Robert F. Sanderson of Boston and marketed by Atwood, Pattee and Potter; many were designed by the Boston firm Gay and Proctor, while several later houses were by local architect C.C. Crowell. Auburndale was slower to suburbanize than other Newton villages, which left this early subdivision as a well-preserved example of its period. It was recognized under criteria A and C.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Gay and Proctor (Joseph B. Gay and William Proctor); C.C. Crowell; houses built for Robert F. Sanderson and marketed by Atwood, Pattee and Potter","architectural_style":"Craftsman, with Colonial Revival houses interspersed","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential and general condition is described as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.266762-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7916/63791604/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000009.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000009/ee0404739d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000009/ee0404739d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windermere_Rd,_Newton_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:Windermere_Rd,_Newton_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791604","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brae_Burn_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955290"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/brae-burn-historic-district-90000009/"}