{"nrhp_refnum":"90000074","name":"Hooper House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"306 Hortonville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Swansea","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.75857475000004,"lon":-71.19652840199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1½-story gambrel cape farmhouse at 306 Hortonville Road in Swansea, Massachusetts, built about 1790 in the Federal style, with a garage, barn and stone well structure on roughly two acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance under Criterion A as an example of early 20th-century adaptive reuse of a farmstead into a \"gentleman's farm,\" and under Criterion C as an intact gambrel cape in the Federal style. It reflects the shift from working farms to weekend and summer residences that shaped Swansea's residential character.","narrative":"Located at 306 Hortonville Road in Swansea, this 1½-story gambrel cape was built around 1790 as a farmhouse. It has a symmetrical five-bay facade with a recessed center entry, sidelights, and a pilaster surround carrying a plain entablature. The original center chimney was replaced at an unknown date, and the 6/6 window sash is later. A garage and well structure from about 1920, a late 19th-century barn, and a stone well structure stand near the road on about two acres. The house sits on the main north-south road linking Gardner's Neck on Mt. Hope Bay with Hortonville and Rehoboth. It was one of many dispersed farmsteads in the late 18th century. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Swansea farms became \"gentleman's farms\" and weekend residences. After World War I, the owner lived in Providence and visited on weekends. The property was listed as a locally significant example of this reuse and of intact Federal-style farmhouse construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal (gambrel cape)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is residential; condition is listed as excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.210285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7896/63789649/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000074.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000074/aab8d06010-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000074/aab8d06010-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SwanseaMA_HooperHouse.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:SwanseaMA_HooperHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789649","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper_House_(Swansea,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5898376"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/hooper-house-90000074/"}