{"nrhp_refnum":"90000222","name":"Brown, Austin, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1028 Bay Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamilton","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.640537831000074,"lon":-70.84811377399996,"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 2 1/2-story, five-bay house at 1028 Bay Road in Hamilton, Essex County, Massachusetts, begun about 1725 as a double-cell First Period house and later enlarged into a Colonial Revival country estate.","why_significant":"The house keeps its late First Period frame, which shows distinctive form and construction and is representative of a larger group of late First Period buildings. It adds to knowledge of framing practices among Hamilton joiners. It also shows early 20th century Colonial Revival architecture built around an authentic colonial core.","narrative":"Located at 1028 Bay Road in Hamilton, this house began around 1725 as a double-cell, First Period dwelling. An 18th-century lean-to was added, and a photograph from 1898 shows it clapboarded with a two-story lean-to and an ell on the left. A right-hand ell followed by 1907. In 1915 the house was enlarged again, stuccoed, given a higher roof with three dormers, and fitted with porches, turning it into a Colonial Revival country estate. Inside, an exposed decorated oak frame survives in the left-hand room and the upstairs chambers, with chamfered summer beams and deeply jowled posts. A Second Period paneled fireplace wall with a molded mantel shelf also remains. In the late 19th century Austin Brown lived here and kept diaries from 1858 to about 1900, now held by the Hamilton Historical Society. The house was listed for its architecture, since its late First Period frame illustrates local joinery and framing practices.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"First Period core with Colonial Revival exterior","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Recorded in good condition and in residential use as a country estate on 5.5 acres.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.945681-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/7900/63790038/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000222.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000222/3c2028dfe8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000222/3c2028dfe8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HamiltonMA_AustinBrownHouse.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:HamiltonMA_AustinBrownHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790038","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Brown_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4822999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/brown-austin-house-90000222/"}