{"nrhp_refnum":"03001177","name":"High Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Even nos. 8-72 High St. except 20A and 20R, plus nos. 31, 47, 57 and 67.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wilmington","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.573109000000045,"lon":-71.15292612551016,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 21 contributing and 2 noncontributing resources along High Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts, covering about sixteen and a half acres of single-family wood-frame houses built from about 1851 to the 1940s and 1950s.","why_significant":"The district shows how the area changed from agricultural land to a mainly residential neighborhood in the mid-19th century, when large landholdings were sold off as house lots and the area earned the name \"New City.\" It also holds a well-preserved collection of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Neo-Federal houses. The form notes archaeological potential as well.","narrative":"High Street in Wilmington, Massachusetts, is lined with single-family houses that record the town's shift from farmland to suburb. The district covers about sixteen and a half acres and includes seventeen principal houses, three carriage barns and three garages. Six surviving houses were built between about 1851 and 1856, when members of old local families, including the Blanchards, Carters and Harndens, began selling acre lots; the area became known as \"New City.\" These early houses blend Greek Revival, Italianate and Gothic-flavored details, and two were built by housewrights Sylvester Woodward and George Fall. Later houses, dating from about 1880 to the 1950s, add Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman bungalow, Neo-Federal and Cape Cod designs. Three houses were moved, two of them to make way for Interstate 93 in the 1950s. The district was recognized for its role in community development and for its architecture, and it may also hold archaeological evidence of a 1665 homestead and of nineteenth-century shoemaking.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1851-1953","architect_builder":"Sylvester Woodward; George Fall","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Houses remain in residential use; many are largely unaltered, though porches, sash and siding have often been changed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.021902-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/70/7957/63795770/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/03001177.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001177/bca629b15a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001177/bca629b15a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilmingtonMA_24_26HighStreet.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilmingtonMA_24_26HighStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795770","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Street_Historic_District_(Wilmington,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5757192"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/high-street-historic-district-03001177/"}