Bedford, MA

Bedford Depot Park & Freight House (1877)

Once the engine house of the narrow-gauge Billerica & Bedford Railroad, this Late-Victorian freight shed anchors Bedford’s rail heritage district. Its heavy-timber frame, restored Budd RDC #6211, and surviving depot form an adaptive-reuse model for transit-oriented redevelopment and masonry envelope stabilization projects.

Phone: 781-687-6180

Official Site

Job Lane House (1713)

A classic salt-box with original clapboards and riven-oak beams, the Job Lane Farm Museum showcases First-Period joinery and Rufus Porter murals. It serves as a living laboratory for timber-frame conservation and period-accurate exterior finishes.

Phone: 781-266-8226

Museum Site

Fitch Tavern (1731)

This Georgian tavern hosted Bedford Minutemen on April 19 1775. Its rubbed-brick chimney stacks, feather-edge sheathing, and low-slope wood roofs exemplify early-18th-century inn construction—ideal reference for envelope rehabilitation and moisture management.

Historical Registry Entry

First Church of Christ, Congregational (1817)

Designed in the Asher Benjamin Federal style, this meetinghouse features Flemish-bond brick end walls, a wooden steeple restored after the 1938 hurricane, and stained-glass sash requiring specialized glazing conservation.

Phone: 781-275-7951

Parish Site

Old Town Hall (1857)

Bedford’s Italianate civic hall retains original polychrome slate roofing, bracketed cornice, and frescoed assembly chamber—prime examples for public-sector envelope repair and interior plaster restoration.

Town of Bedford

Bedford VA Medical Center Historic District (1928)

This 276-acre second-generation veterans’ hospital showcases Classical-Revival brick pavilions connected by “hospital streets” with copper roofs—valuable case studies for large-campus façade stabilization and bronze window refurbishment.

VA Site

Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead (1740)

Center-chimney Georgian residence associated with Wilson Mill owners; its mortise-and-tenon frame, wainscot paneling, and rubblestone foundation guide period-correct masonry repointing and wood-trim replication.

NRHP Nomination

Nathaniel Page House (c. 1720)

Believed to have sheltered the famed Bedford Flag, this First-Period timber frame exhibits gunstock posts and chamfered summer beams—essential references for structural retrofits in early-18th-century dwellings.

NRHP File

Christopher Page House (1730)

Transitional First-Period/Georgian structure with central-chimney five-bay façade. Its leanto dormer and Colonial-Revival porch illustrate evolving envelope adaptations across three centuries.

NRHP File

David Lane House (1781)

A Cape-style veteran’s dwelling noted for fine interior joinery and paneled fireplace walls—ideal for studying late-Georgian millwork and lime-based plaster conservation.

NRHP File

Wilson Mill–Old Burlington Road Historic District (1685–1900)

Featuring 17th-century mill foundations, stone-lined raceway, and a 1913 concrete bridge, this 9-acre riverside district informs dam-stabilization, shoreline masonry, and context-sensitive bridge rehabilitation.

NRHP File

Bedford Center Historic District (1730-1920)

Encompassing Great Road’s civic spine, the district’s brick-ended Federal residences, granite-trimmed commercial blocks, and early steel-sash storefronts offer a microcosm of New England streetscape evolution.

NRHP File

Old Burying Ground (1729)

With 386 slate headstones and 14 mound tombs, this congregational burial ground presents preservation challenges in brownstone exfoliation, tablet stabilization, and iron-fence conservation.

Historical Society

Shawsheen Cemetery (1849)

Designed in the Rural-Cemetery style, Shawsheen’s curvilinear lanes, granite boundary walls, and red-granite Civil War monument illustrate Victorian funerary landscape planning and stone monument repair.

NRHP File

Wilson Mill Park & Spillway

The 1685 corn-mill site features coursed rubble spillway, granite-block dam, and iron turbine remnants—critical for hydrologic modeling and adaptive flood-control retrofits.

Park Committee

Colonel Timothy Jones House (c. 1775)

This Colonial-Revival-adapted farmhouse—recently added to the NRHP—demonstrates best practices in whole-house gut-rehab that respects original post-and-beam framing and early clapboards.

NRHP File

Two Brothers Rocks–Dudley Road Historic District (1638 boundary)

These glacial erratics, inscribed by descendants of Governors Winthrop and Dudley, anchor a 230-acre conservation corridor—key for riverbank stabilization and interpretive trail design.

NRHP File

Elijah Stearns Mansion (1800)

A brick-ended Federal residence with wrought-iron fanlight and carriage house, recently sensitively restored—modeling slate-roof replacement and brick pointing compatible with historic lime mortars.

Feature Article

First Parish Meetinghouse, Unitarian Universalist (1817)

Asher Benjamin-inspired Federal timber frame with lantern steeple and flush-boarded façade. Solar-panel preservation litigation makes it a case study in integrating renewables with historic roofs.

Parish Site

Bedford Flag Display, Bedford Free Public Library

The oldest known intact battle flag in the United States (c. 1704) is housed in a climate-controlled glass chamber—exemplifying micro-environmental display systems and security glazing for textile artifacts.

Phone: 781-275-9440

Library Page