{"id":4855,"date":"2012-09-15T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2012-09-21T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T04:40:55","slug":"elijah-northrup-house-1790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4855","title":{"rendered":"Elijah Northrup House (1790)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Northrup-Elijah-Cook-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elijah Northrup House\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Northrup-Elijah-Cook-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Northrup-Elijah-Cook-House-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Associated early on with the Cook family, the <a href=\"http:\/\/wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/cgi-bin\/igm.cgi?op=GET&#038;db=krispyhack2&#038;id=I268\">Elijah Northrup<\/a> House in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshireweb.com\/themap\/lenox\/history\/laurel.html\">Lenox<\/a> was built around 1790, when it was a tavern and farmhouse.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SUsMAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA857&#038;ots=5DYChqtAvz&#038;dq=%22Richard%20Sands%20Tucker%22%20brooklyn&#038;pg=PA857#v=onepage&#038;q=%22Richard%20Sands%20Tucker%22%20brooklyn&#038;f=false\">Richard Sands Tucker<\/a> of Brooklyn, NY purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=LEN.10\">the house<\/a> in 1866 and his widow later sold it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Henry-Sedgwick\/311748539260005764\">Henry Sedgwick<\/a>.  His son, Manton R. Sedgwick, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=7tghAQAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=PA776&#038;ots=Yb4pXtBvo6&#038;dq=%22manton%20r.%20sedgwick%22%20lenox&#038;pg=PA776#v=onepage&#038;q=%22manton%20r.%20sedgwick%22%20lenox&#038;f=false\">sold the house<\/a> to Caroline Katherine Carey, who purchased the property in 1928 so it could serve as the Lenox branch of the Berkshire County Home for Aged Women.  In more recent years the house, located at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superpages.com\/bp\/Lenox-MA\/Winstanley-Associates-L0000300701.htm\">114 Main Street<\/a>, has served as offices, most recently for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winstanley.com\/about.php\">Winstanley Partners<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated early on with the Cook family, the Elijah Northrup House in Lenox was built around 1790, when it was a tavern and farmhouse. Richard Sands Tucker of Brooklyn, NY purchased the house in 1866 and his widow later sold it to Henry Sedgwick. His son, Manton R. Sedgwick, sold the house to Caroline Katherine Carey, who purchased the property in 1928 so it could serve as the Lenox branch of the Berkshire County Home for Aged Women. In more recent years the house, located at 114 Main Street, has served as offices, most recently for Winstanley Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-houses","category-lenox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}