{"nrhp_refnum":"02000902","name":"Northeast School","other_names":["District #1 School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"981 Summit Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.40014604600003,"lon":-73.33126979099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room district schoolhouse at 981 Summit Road in the Stevens Corners area of Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, dating to the late 18th century and moved a short distance across the road in 1993.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the earliest of six known schoolhouses built in Richmond and the only one not converted to residential use. It is significant under Criterion A for reflecting the town's response to population growth and the need for public education, and under Criterion C as an intact surviving district school. It meets Criteria Consideration B because it was moved.","narrative":"Northeast School, also called District #1 School, is a one-story, one-room schoolhouse on Summit Road in Richmond, Massachusetts. Built in a simplified Federal style with a pedimented south gable, clapboard siding and post-and-beam framing of hand-hewn timbers, it has a later wing housing a woodshed and 1932 chemical toilets. It served the Stevens Corners settlement, once the town's business center with a tavern, store and post office. Town records show steady maintenance, including major repairs by contractor J. B. Stiles in 1888. The school closed in 1937 when a consolidated school opened, then sat empty and was used for storage and as a pig barn. In 1993 the Richmond Historical Society moved it across the road onto a new foundation and restored it as a museum. It is listed as the earliest known of Richmond's six schoolhouses and the only one not converted to a home, and as a surviving example of a rural district school in western Massachusetts.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1791-1937","architect_builder":"Stiles, J.B. (1888 repairs)","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored by the Richmond Historical Society after the 1993 move and now used as a museum; the school closed in 1937 and stood empty and was later used for storage and as a pig barn before 1993.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.889222-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7943/63794356/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/02000902.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000902/b4d9a3709c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000902/b4d9a3709c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RichmondMA_NortheastSchool.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</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:RichmondMA_NortheastSchool.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794356","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7057974"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/northeast-school-02000902/"}