General Artemas Ward House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead in winter
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Location	786 Main St., opposite Dean Park,Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°17′42″N71°41′50″W / 42.29500°N 71.69722°W /42.29500; -71.69722
Built	1727
NRHP reference No.	76000308[1]
Added to NRHP	May 4, 1976

TheGeneral Artemas Ward House is a historic house at 786 Main Street inShrewsbury, Massachusetts. Commonly known as the "Artemas Ward House", it was the lifelong home ofArtemas Ward,AmericanMajor General in theAmerican Revolutionary War and aCongressman fromMassachusetts. The house is listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.^[1]

The house was built by Ward's father, Nahum, in 1727 to house tenants on his farm; Artemas Ward moved into the house in 1763.^[2] Its location is along the originalBoston Post Road, andan original mile marker of that road is still visible across Main Street on the Dean Park side.

The building was enlarged by the General in 1785, raising the roof and nearly doubling its size, to accommodate the family of his son Thomas Walter Ward alongside his own household. It was enlarged again in 1820 by Thomas Walter Ward, adding a two-story ell to the rear. The main structure was occupied by Ward family members until 1909. From 1909 until 1954 descendants of the general lived in a second structure situated behind the colonial home. The property was donated by the family toHarvard University in 1925.^[3]

The home is now operated by Harvard as a museum and is open to the public for limited hours during the summer months. The property also includes a four-story barn. The barn was created by joining two separate barn structures in 1848.

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  The front of the Artemas Ward House, June 30, 2007
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  The back of the barn at the Artemas Ward House, June 30, 2007
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  The Memorial Stone at Gen. Artemas Ward Homestead, May 15, 2009

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts

• Luey, Beth (2019). "Keepers of the Flame: The General Artemas Ward House, Shrewsbury".At Home: Historic Houses of Central and Western Massachusetts. Bright Leaf.ISBN 9781625344656.

• Wardhouse.harvard.edu: OfficialArtemas Ward Museum website

• Historic house museums in Massachusetts
• Buildings and structures in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
• Biographical museums in Massachusetts
• Museums in Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Harvard University museums
• Houses completed in 1727
• Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
• 1727 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay

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