{"nrhp_refnum":"90000200","name":"Smith, Hazadiah, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"337 Cabot St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Beverly","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.554587549000075,"lon":-70.87821631999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half story, five-bay clapboarded house at 337 Cabot Street in Beverly, Massachusetts, built about 1686 in the First Period style. The builder is unknown, but the first owner, Hazadiah Smith, was a house carpenter.","why_significant":"The house keeps its decorated First-Period pine frame, including transverse summer beams with bevel chamfers and lamb's tongue stops, and is significant under Criterion C. The visible frame uses chamfer and stop types in a consistent system, which could yield information on First-Period carpentry (Criterion D). It is also tied to three local craftsmen: Hazadiah Smith, his son Hazadiah Jr., and his grandson Ebenezer, a silversmith.","narrative":"This house at 337 Cabot Street in Beverly dates to about 1686 and is a surviving example of First-Period construction. It began as a double-cell, central-chimney dwelling, and rear rooms and a new roof were added in the eighteenth century, leaving the chimney stack protruding through the front roof slope. Inside, the front rooms keep a complete system of decorated pine framing, including transverse summer beams, chamfered posts and girts, and molded jowls. A 9-foot fireplace opening is probably original. Deeds identify Hazadiah Smith as a carpenter who acquired the land and probably built the house, making it an early example of the simplified decorative system using bevel chamfers with lamb's tongue and taper stops. His son Hazadiah Jr. was also a carpenter, and his grandson Ebenezer, a silversmith, owned the house until 1817. The well-preserved frame and the link to three local craftsmen supported its listing for architecture and for the information the framing may offer.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; Hazadiah Smith, house carpenter, is probably the builder","architectural_style":"First Period","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Present use is residence; condition 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 02:13:04.872162-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7898/63789823/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000200.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000200/7ee16bba07-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000200/7ee16bba07-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Fletcher6","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hazadiah_Smith_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Fletcher6</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:Hazadiah_Smith_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789823","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazadiah_Smith_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5687525"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/smith-hazadiah-house-90000200/"}