{"id":5393,"date":"2012-11-08T01:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T06:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2012-11-08T02:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T07:16:28","slug":"f-nichols-house-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=5393","title":{"rendered":"F. Nichols House (1896)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/61-Washington-Rd.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"61 Washington Road, Springfield\" width=\"500\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/61-Washington-Rd.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/61-Washington-Rd-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/61-Washington-Rd-Springfield-MA-01108\/56232678_zpid\/\">Located<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trulia.com\/homes\/Massachusetts\/Springfield\/sold\/954291-61-Washington-Rd-Springfield-MA-01108\">61 Washington Road<\/a>, in the Forest Park Heights section of Springfield, is the F. Nichols House, a colonial revival-style residence, built in 1896.  From 1905 to 1955, it was the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thornton_Burgess\">Thornton W. Burgess<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massbook.org\/OnlineMap--New\/WesternMA\/Springfield\/springfield_cem.html\">1874-1965<\/a>).  A <a href=\"http:\/\/hellsacres.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/ruins-of-laughing-brook.html\">conservationist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life123.com\/sports\/vacations-vacation-planning\/new-england\/thornton-burgess-and-the-animals.shtml\">author<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonburgess.org\/ThorntonW.Burgess.htm\">Burgess<\/a> wrote <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=JMQ9AAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PP7#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Old Mother West Wind<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thornton_Burgess#Works\">many other children&#8217;s books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located at 61 Washington Road, in the Forest Park Heights section of Springfield, is the F. Nichols House, a colonial revival-style residence, built in 1896. From 1905 to 1955, it was the home of Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965). A conservationist and author, Burgess wrote Old Mother West Wind and many other children&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,188,8,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial-revival","category-foursquare","category-houses","category-springfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","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=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}