{"nrhp_refnum":"00001393","name":"Quadrangle-Mattoon Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Byers, Pearl, Spring and Salem Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.104576500000036,"lon":-72.5855043714192,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","European","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-acre, L-shaped residential historic district in Springfield, Massachusetts, along Byers, Pearl, Spring and Salem Streets next to the Springfield Armory, extending the existing Quadrangle-Mattoon district. It includes houses from about 1850 onward, early twentieth-century apartment blocks, and a 1977 park.","why_significant":"The extension adds a wider range of architectural styles from Springfield's industrial and early modern periods, including Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Stick, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses. It also holds a dense group of four-story brick apartment blocks, described as Springfield's most characteristic building type. The neighborhood's growth from single-family homes to apartment housing reflects the city's commercial expansion and the role of local builders, including French-Canadian families.","narrative":"This twelve-acre district in Springfield, Massachusetts, lies beside the Springfield Armory grounds along Byers, Pearl, Spring and Salem Streets. It extends an existing historic district and contains thirty-six principal buildings, one large outbuilding and a small park. Development began in the 1830s as housing near the Armory. The oldest surviving houses date from 1850 and mix Greek Revival and Italianate features. Later single- and two-family homes show Second Empire, Stick, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles, often built by local masons and carpenters. From 1895, brick apartment blocks replaced many older houses, and by 1930 over half the district consisted of four- and five-story buildings, many with red pressed brick and marble trim in bow-front Georgian Revival form. They housed clerical and retail workers from downtown businesses. French-Canadian builders, notably the Gagnier and Angers families, carried out most construction after 1899. Armoury Commons, a park built in 1977, adds open space. Despite demolitions, the district keeps substantial integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Perkins & Gardner; Guy Kirkham; Zephaniah Spooner; Emerson Crosier; Lebbeus C. Smith; Frederick B. Taylor; William Birnie; LeGrand C. Sheldon","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, Stick, Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Georgian Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Modern","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in residential and commercial use. Some wood-frame buildings have asbestos or asphalt siding and some apartment blocks have altered windows. Nearly twenty houses, four apartment blocks and one store have been demolished since 1930.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.434168-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/87/7952/63795287/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/00001393.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001393/488a761497-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001393/488a761497-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Springfield,_MA_-_DSC03877.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Springfield,_MA_-_DSC03877.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrangle%E2%80%93Mattoon_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7268306"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/quadrangle-mattoon-historic-district-boundary-increase-00001393/"}