{"nrhp_refnum":"90000217","name":"Haskell, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"11 Lincoln St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gloucester","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.62731637600007,"lon":-70.73784799099997,"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, four-bay clapboarded First Period house at 11 Lincoln Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts, dating to the early 18th century, on 8.5 acres in a rural setting. It has a later lean-to and 1930s additions.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be one of the best preserved First Period buildings surveyed, with an intact frame, chimney and largely original finishes. Its cyma-molded frame in the right-hand side is very unusual, and it may be a plank-frame structure, a rare type on the North Shore. It is also tied to the early 20th-century colonial restoration movement through sculptor A.H. Atkins, who bought it in 1927.","narrative":"Standing at 11 Lincoln Street in Gloucester, this early 18th-century house is a two-and-a-half-story, four-bay clapboarded dwelling set on 8.5 acres of open fields and wooded lots. It has an intact First Period frame and chimney, along with modest but well-executed original finishes and a good deal of early hardware. Its right-hand rooms are framed with an unusual cyma molding in place of the usual chamfer, a feature known in only one or two other examples. The frame may be of plank construction, a method found in only about two dozen North Shore houses. In 1927 Boston sculptor A.H. Atkins bought the house and restored it, and in about 1930 a shed was converted to a living room and a new wing was added, designed by Thomas Williams of Rockport. Articles and measured drawings in the 1920s and 1930s made it a well-known example of colonial revival interest. The house was briefly a museum, and it is eligible for its architecture and its potential to yield information about early construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"First Period/Colonial Revival","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good; the house is in present residential use. It was briefly owned by the Cape Ann Historical Society and operated as a house museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.474752-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7898/63789849/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000217.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000217/470870afef-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000217/470870afef-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GloucesterMA_WilliamHaskellHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</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:GloucesterMA_WilliamHaskellHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789849","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haskell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8011000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/haskell-william-house-90000217/"}