{"nrhp_refnum":"90000246","name":"Noyes, James, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7 Parker Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newbury","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.797537127000055,"lon":-70.86232198899995,"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 First Period residence at 7 Parker Road in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, with a core of undetermined seventeenth-century date (recorded as c. 1650-1699). It is a clapboarded, central-chimney, five-bay house that was later enlarged.","why_significant":"The house keeps a decorated First Period frame and an extremely early type of roof framing, with small chamfers on the members like those of the nearby Coffin House (c.1654). Its exposed tie beam has a filled chamfer and stop that is unique within the thematic survey. Later alterations conceal structural evidence that might date the house more closely, which adds research value.","narrative":"Seventeenth-century carpentry survives inside this clapboarded house at 7 Parker Road in Newbury. The central-chimney, five-bay building began as a single-room-deep structure of undetermined date, probably between about 1650 and 1699. Its oak roof uses a principal-rafter and purlin system with three purlins and a ridge purlin trenched into the rafters, and the chamfered members relate directly to the roof of the Coffin House of about 1654. In a second-floor chamber, an exposed oak tie beam carries a quarter-round chamfer with fillet ending in a lamb's tongue stop, which is unique among the First Period houses surveyed. A two-story ell was added about 1800, with later additions and dormers following, and the main rooms were remodeled with Federal trim. The house was recognized for its architectural qualities and for the structural evidence concealed behind later alterations.","period_of_significance":"c. 1650 (?) - 1699","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"First Period","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Recorded in good condition, in use as a residence, and not moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.190892-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/35/7898/63789835/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000246.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000246/0093e09ded-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000246/0093e09ded-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NewburyMA_JamesNoyesHouse.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:NewburyMA_JamesNoyesHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Noyes_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6140432"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/noyes-james-house-90000246/"}