{"nrhp_refnum":"96000326","name":"Kenmore","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of MA 295 and MA 41","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.394098775500055,"lon":-73.36423376904085,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Kenmore is a two-story, five-bay, center-hall Georgian/Federal wood-frame house built in 1792 on about seventeen acres on State Road in Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with a garage/guest house, studio and fence.","why_significant":"The house was built for Henry Sherrill, a prosperous early Richmond merchant, and is described as a high-style example of Georgian and Federal architecture with intact interior woodwork and room layouts. It later served as a boarding school run by Jared Reid Jr. and his wife in the 1870s. The 1900 and 1931-1933 renovations are also part of its history.","narrative":"Kenmore is a large wood-frame house on State Road in Richmond, Massachusetts, set on about seventeen acres of fields, orchard and garden. Built in 1792 for Henry Sherrill, a prosperous local merchant whose store lay on the trade route to Kinderhook and the Hudson River, it combines Georgian and Federal design. Features include a five-bay facade, a slate hipped roof, a Palladian window, a columned portico and a forty-foot center hall divided by a keystone archway. Inside, original room layouts, wide-board floors, hand-wrought hardware, nine fireplaces and a Georgian staircase survive. In the 1870s Jared Reid Jr. and his wife ran the house as a boarding school, and it acquired the name Kenmore then. Renovations around 1900 added a rear wing and modern services, and further changes in 1931-1933 added a garage/guest house and a studio. The property is recognized for its architecture and its connection to Richmond's early commerce and education.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Possibly Jeremiah Holsey Peirson (builder, as suggested for the similar nearby Goodwood); original owner Henry Sherrill","architectural_style":"Colonial: Georgian; Early Republic: Federal; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Retains a great deal of exterior and interior integrity; the brick-and-wood fence is in disrepair. Current function is listed as single dwelling and secondary structure.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.203446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7941/63794184/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/96000326.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000326/ce4e5f64f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000326/ce4e5f64f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RichmondMA_Kenmore_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RichmondMA_Kenmore_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794184","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmore_(Richmond,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389463"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/kenmore-96000326/"}