{"nrhp_refnum":"90000203","name":"Osborne, Prince, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"273 Maple St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Danvers","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.57385597100006,"lon":-70.95372779399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story First Period house at 273 Maple Street, Danvers, Massachusetts, built in two joined frames dating from about 1690 to 1720. It was moved to its present site in 1915 from Summer Street.","why_significant":"The house combines two distinct First Period frames, a single room with late 17th-century chamfering and a hewn overhang joined to a single-cell frame with c. 1720 finish. This is an atypical way of enlarging an early house. Its staircase and super-raised field paneling are early, noteworthy transitional elements. It may also yield further information on how First Period buildings were built and enlarged.","narrative":"This house at 273 Maple Street in Danvers, Massachusetts, is a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay First Period dwelling with a steep roof. It was moved in 1915 from Summer Street, where it stood on land once farmed by Robert Prince. It joins two separate early frames: the left rooms, probably built by about 1690, with chamfered beams and a hewn overhang, and the right rooms with chimney bay, finished around 1720. Joining two frames this way was unusual, since builders more commonly kept the chimney bay of the older structure when enlarging a house. The right-hand room holds early super-raised field paneling with wide feathered edges, and the lobby has a transitional staircase with turned balusters. The paneling was rediscovered and reinstalled during a 1944 restoration. The house was recognized for its distinctive construction and for its potential to reveal more about how First Period buildings were framed and expanded.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown; restored in 1944 with architect Phillip Horton Smith","architectural_style":"First Period","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Condition is stated as good; present use is residential.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.848882-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7899/63789987/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000203.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000203/6f14a99925-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000203/6f14a99925-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Osborne_House,_Danvers_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:Prince_Osborne_House,_Danvers_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789987","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Osborne_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7244190"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/osborne-prince-house-90000203/"}