General Artemas Ward House

Per Wikipedia's article on the General Artemas Ward House, the house at 786 Main Street, opposite Dean Park, was built in 1727 by Nahum Ward to house tenants on his farm; his son Artemas Ward, later a Revolutionary War major general and Massachusetts congressman, moved into it in 1763. The General enlarged the house in 1785, "raising the roof and nearly doubling its size," and his son Thomas Walter Ward enlarged it again in 1820, adding a two-story ell. The main structure was occupied by Ward family members until 1909; a second structure behind the house was then occupied by descendants until 1954. The property's four-story barn "was created by joining two separate barn structures in 1848." The Ward family donated the property to Harvard University in 1925, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1976; it "is now operated by Harvard as a museum and is open to the public for limited hours during the summer months."