{"nrhp_refnum":"90000273","name":"Chase, Samuel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"154 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Newbury","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.78816627100008,"lon":-71.00129696899995,"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 seven-bay, two-story, central-hall brick house with a gable roof at 154 Main Street, West Newbury, Massachusetts, built about 1715. It is a residence on a village lot of under one acre.","why_significant":"The house embodies the transition from First Period to Second Period (Georgian) house planning in its construction and decorative finish. It is one of only six known houses of this type in the Merrimack Valley dating from about 1700 to 1720. Its rarity helps explain changing craft traditions and domestic planning in the early eighteenth century, and it may yield further information.","narrative":"Built around 1715 at 154 Main Street in West Newbury, this seven-bay, two-story brick house follows a central-hall plan under a gable roof. Its brick is laid in English bond, and the interior keeps exposed tie beams and parallel summer beams decorated with chamfers, lamb's tongue stops and a reverse cyma molding. A wooden rear leanto was added in the 19th century, and later changes altered the windows and chimneys. Restoration and rehabilitation took place in 1986. The house matters because it shows the shift from First Period building traditions toward Georgian planning. It is one of six known houses of this type in the Merrimack Valley from roughly 1700 to 1720, a group that includes the Peaslee Garrison in Haverhill. Tradition holds that the bricks were made in the yard, presumably by Samuel Chase. Its rarity makes it valuable for understanding early eighteenth-century craft and domestic planning.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Transitional First/Second Period","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Restored and rehabilitated in 1986; renovation was completed by the 1989 inspection.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.411092-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7898/63789875/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000273.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000273/99502d3e43-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000273/99502d3e43-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Chase_House,_West_Newbury_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:Samuel_Chase_House,_West_Newbury_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789875","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7411100"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/chase-samuel-house-90000273/"}