{"nrhp_refnum":"94001496","name":"Tobey, Josiah, House","other_names":["St. Anthony's Rectory"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"67 Oxbow Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Falmouth","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.57820103700004,"lon":-70.57517641899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-12-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["European","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Greek Revival, L-plan, 2 1/2-story frame house built in 1854 for Josiah Tobey and Sarah Lewis in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. It was moved in one piece in 1991 to a hilltop site at 67 Oxbow Road in Teaticket and now serves as a duplex.","why_significant":"The house is tied to East Falmouth's shift from sheep raising to cranberry and strawberry farming and to the growth of its Portuguese-American community. It served for 70 years as the rectory of St. Anthony's Church, a Portuguese National Church from 1923. It is also a good rural example of Greek Revival style, with one of the most stylish columned porches in Falmouth.","narrative":"Built in 1854 for Josiah Tobey and his wife Sarah Lewis, this Greek Revival farmhouse in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, has an L-shaped plan, a gable front and a one-story porch carried on four fluted columns. Wide entablatures with dentil moldings and corner pilasters mark the exterior. Few local farmhouses of the period had such a porch. The house later passed to John Crocker, a cranberry company manager whose operations drew Azorean and Cape Verdean workers from New Bedford, helping form a Portuguese-American community. For about 70 years it served as the rectory of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, which became a Portuguese National Church in 1923. In 1991 the church, facing the loss of the house to a new rectory, had it lifted and moved in one piece half a mile west to a hilltop. It was rehabilitated as a duplex with a new rear ell. Its architecture and its link to East Falmouth's agricultural and ethnic history support its listing.","period_of_significance":"1854-1944","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition after restoration; converted to a two-family residence and moved in 1991 to a new site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.364172-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7940/63794061/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/94001496.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001496/de33605900-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001496/de33605900-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FalmouthMA_JosiahTobeyHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">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:FalmouthMA_JosiahTobeyHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794061","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Tobey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6290640"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/tobey-josiah-house-94001496/"}