{"nrhp_refnum":"90000361","name":"Boardman, John, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6 Lawrence Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boxford","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.66557151300003,"lon":-71.02383388699997,"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":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay clapboarded saltbox house at 6 Lawrence Road, Boxford, Massachusetts, built about 1740-50 in Saugus and moved to Boxford in 1956.","why_significant":"The house keeps late First Period framing and transitional decoration, which qualifies it under Criterion C. It has a direct association with the Boardman family of Saugus. Its restoration under Abbott Lowell Cummings yielded information on the slow shift from First to Second Period architecture in rural Massachusetts, and it may yield more (Criterion D).","narrative":"This saltbox house at 6 Lawrence Road in Boxford was built around 1740 in Saugus, Massachusetts, near the 17th-century home of William Boardman, grandfather of John Boardman. It was moved to Boxford in 1956 and restored by Earl Newton with guidance from Abbott Lowell Cummings. A long one-story addition was built at the rear corner at that time, and the brick central chimney is a copy of the original. The house began as a double-cell, central-chimney building with a lobby entrance and no leanto, which was added about 1800. Inside, the east room has exposed framing, a flat-chamfered chimney girt, feather-edged sheathing and a fireplace with a beehive oven. The staircase is a late First Period closed-string design without balusters. The house is valued for late First Period framing and transitional decoration, for its link to the Boardman family, and for what its restoration revealed about the slow change from First to Second Period building in rural Massachusetts.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; restored by Earl Newton with guidance from Abbott Lowell Cummings","architectural_style":"First Period (transitional to Second Period)","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; in use as a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.741105-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/43/7898/63789843/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000361.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000361/bda592298c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000361/bda592298c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BoxfordMA_JohnBoardmanHouse.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:BoxfordMA_JohnBoardmanHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789843","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boardman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6222315"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/boardman-john-house-90000361/"}