J.D.C. Bradley House

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J.D.C. Bradley House, also known as Oakcrest, is a grand historic mansion at 5 Sadie Hutt Lane in Southborough, Massachusetts. Built in 1913 as a country estate, the 15,000-square-foot house sits on about 5.93 acres and stands on a rise with west-facing views. It was designed by Charles Adams Platt in the Colonial Revival style. The two-and-a-half-story structure has a wooden frame with brick walls finished in stucco. The front features a long central block, 71 feet long, flanked by symmetrical wings; all sections have hipped roofs, and the central block has three front gable dormers.

Inside, many original finishes remain, including a large library measuring 32 by 27 feet that can hold about 4,000 volumes. The house was built for James Donald Cameron Bradley as a gift for his fiancée Helen Sears from her mother, Sarah Choate Sears, and it stood near the Sears family’s summer house at 1 Sears Road. The Bradley family kept the estate until 1972, when it was sold to the Southborough School for Girls, which used it for a few years. In 1984 developers bought the property and subdivided the surrounding land. The J.D.C. Bradley House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.