{"nrhp_refnum":"96000143","name":"Paddock Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"259 Salisbury St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Holden","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.333919277000064,"lon":-71.84868876399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-02-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Paddock Farm is a 1 1/2 story frame farmhouse with an attached ell, barn and outbuildings at 259 Salisbury Street, Holden, Worcester County, Massachusetts. The rear ell dates to about 1780 and the main house to about 1840.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a well preserved example of the locally popular 1 1/2 story kneewall cape with eyebrow windows, in a vernacular Federal-Greek Revival style. It represents early 19th century rural domestic architecture in Holden. It is one of a handful of such houses built there from about 1800 through the 1840s, and it retains good integrity.","narrative":"Paddock Farm in Holden, Massachusetts, is a farmhouse complex on Salisbury Street beside Dawson Pond. The 1 1/2 story main house, built about 1840, has a five-bay, center-entrance form, a Greek Revival doorway with cornerblocks, and small kneewall windows above the first floor. A rear ell, thought to date from about 1780, may be the earliest structure on the site. The barn was rebuilt in 1953 after a tornado, and a boathouse was added about 1966. The farm was listed as a well preserved example of the kneewall cape with eyebrow windows, a house type found in only a handful of Holden buildings from roughly 1800 to the 1840s. Deed research traces the land to Reuben Paddock Jr., who bought it in 1780, and his descendants farmed it for generations. In 1913 the house was divided into apartments for mill workers, and it returned to single-family use after 1942. The landscape, stone walls and mature trees support its setting.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1780 - 1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (vernacular Federal-Greek Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and retaining integrity; current use is a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.214121-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7971/63797178/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/96000143.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000143/fc3464b8cc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000143/fc3464b8cc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HoldenMA_PaddockFarm.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:HoldenMA_PaddockFarm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797178","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddock_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123363"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/paddock-farm-96000143/"}