{"nrhp_refnum":"02000081","name":"Frances and Isabella Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"430-432 and 434-436 Dudley St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.32435712500006,"lon":-71.07425682399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two identical three-story Queen Anne brick apartment buildings at 430-432 and 434-436 Dudley Street in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, built in 1887 and designed by Jacob Goldsmith of Goldsmith & Company.","why_significant":"The pair are well-preserved examples of Queen Anne apartment blocks, unusual in an area of smaller wood-frame multi-family houses. They are also an identical pair and two of only five known works by architect Jacob Goldsmith, all designed between 1887 and 1889. They are described as locally significant under Criteria A and C.","narrative":"Two matching brick apartment buildings occupy the full block of Dudley Street between Woodward and Clarence Streets in Roxbury, Boston. Built in 1887 in the Queen Anne style, they rise three stories and have corner towers with conical copper roofs and three-story bow windows on the side walls. The brickwork is richly detailed, with corbelled belt courses, scalloped cornices and patterned panels, and brownstone keystones, lintels and sills. Nameplates read Frances and Isabella. Each building was originally laid out with two apartments per floor; a 1952 renovation split these units, and in 1981 the buildings became lodging houses. The exteriors have changed very little, though most windows have replacement sash. Many historic interior finishes survive, including trim, paneled doors and some mantelpieces. The buildings were listed for their architecture, as rare high-style apartment blocks in a neighborhood of simpler wood-frame housing, and as two of five known works by architect Jacob Goldsmith. They also reflect Roxbury's late nineteenth-century residential growth.","period_of_significance":"1887-1951","architect_builder":"Goldsmith, Jacob & Co.","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to lodging houses in 1981; the form describes the buildings as having a residential layout, with a renovation in 1952 that divided each apartment into two.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.536519-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7968/63796853/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/02000081.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000081/be79ee904f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000081/be79ee904f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_and_Isabella_Apartments,_Roxbury_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frances_and_Isabella_Apartments,_Roxbury_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796853","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_and_Isabella_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715474"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/frances-and-isabella-apartments-02000081/"}