{"nrhp_refnum":"03001263","name":"Cottage-Freeman Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Cottage St. Freeman St., from Commonwealth Ave. to Ten Mile River and Park Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Attleborough","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.96792650000003,"lon":-71.3090609304401,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A densely built residential historic district of about 11 acres in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, along Cottage Street, Freeman Street, Park Lane and part of Commonwealth Avenue beside the Ten Mile River. It holds 39 contributing buildings, mostly wood-frame houses built between about 1835 and 1910.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district meets criteria A and C at the local level. The houses document the growth of a jewelry-worker population near The Falls factories in the late 19th century, when jewelry production peaked. They also show the variety within late 19th-century vernacular domestic architecture in their plans, forms and ornament.","narrative":"This residential district in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, covers about 11 acres beside the Ten Mile River and includes Cottage Street, Freeman Street, Park Lane and part of Commonwealth Avenue. It has 39 contributing buildings, nearly all wood-frame houses, most of them 1½ stories with end-gable roofs. Two late Federal houses on Park Lane date to about 1835, while most of the rest were built between 1870 and 1890. Every house has a documented link to the local jewelry industry, whether built or owned by a jewelry company or manufacturer, or occupied by a jewelry worker. Most were privately owned by individuals rather than companies, a pattern typical of urbanizing areas. The houses follow two basic plans, a symmetrical center-entrance type and an asymmetrical side-hall type, and show styles such as Gothic Revival and mansard-roofed cottages. The district was listed for its role in community development and for its representative late 19th-century domestic architecture.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1835-1953","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Late Victorian: Queen Anne, Italianate; Mid 19th Century: Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is domestic, single and multiple dwellings; the form reports no intrusions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.022243-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7944/63794456/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/03001263.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001263/7f65249091-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001263/7f65249091-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_E._and_Abigail_Arnold_House,_Attleborough_Falls_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_E._and_Abigail_Arnold_House,_Attleborough_Falls_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage%E2%80%93Freeman_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5175504"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/cottage-freeman-historic-district-03001263/"}