{"nrhp_refnum":"97000820","name":"Power, Charles Whittlesey, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"575 South St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsfield","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.42877825250005,"lon":-73.25345358435655,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Tudor Revival country house built in 1912 at 575 South Street on the south side of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, set on an 11.25-acre landscaped parcel with an automobile house, terraced garden and gazebo.","why_significant":"The house is the property best associated with Charles Whittlesey Power, a business and civic leader in early twentieth-century Pittsfield. It is also an intact, impressive Tudor Revival dwelling in a landscaped setting. The nomination calls it unique in Pittsfield for bringing in the design influence of the early work of English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (spelled 'Lutyens' in the form).","narrative":"Built in 1912 on the southern outskirts of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, this brick Tudor Revival house sits on a hillside parcel of about eleven and a quarter acres beside the Country Club of Pittsfield. Its L-plan form, steep jerkinhead roofs, tall corbeled chimneys, leaded diamond-pane windows and granite foundation give it a picturesque, asymmetrical profile. The grounds include a three-tier formal garden, a rustic gazebo and a brick automobile house. Charles Whittlesey Power built the house in his early forties and lived there until 1954. He was an MIT graduate and Tillotson Mills employee who became president of the Pittsfield National Bank, served as mayor from 1923 to 1925 and led several civic and charitable organizations. The nomination also treats the house as unusual for Pittsfield, where Medieval English Revival houses were typically smaller half-timbered versions, because it reflects the country-house design of Sir Edwin Lutyens's early work. It was listed for its association with Power and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1912-1946","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling; the kitchen remodeling of the 1970s was removed in 1993 and the space was being redesigned at the time of writing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.211241-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7943/63794306/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/97000820.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000820/02ab5cda49-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000820/02ab5cda49-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PittsfieldMA_CharlesWhittleseyPowerHouse.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:PittsfieldMA_CharlesWhittleseyPowerHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794306","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whittlesey_Power_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083511"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/power-charles-whittlesey-house-97000820/"}