{"nrhp_refnum":"04000086","name":"Waquoit Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Portions of Main, Barrows, Carrige House, Collins, Martin, Moonakis, Takemmeh and Waquoit Landing, Parson, Studley, Whi","address_restricted":false,"city":"Falmouth","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.58579800000007,"lon":-70.52327240995336,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A semi-rural village historic district of about 170 acres in Waquoit, part of Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, centered on a 1.5-mile stretch of Main Street (Route 28). It has 133 resources, mostly houses dating from the 18th to 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district preserves the core of a village that grew around agriculture, small water-powered industry, seafaring, and later summer visitors. Most of its dwellings date to the mid-19th century, when Waquoit flourished as a manufacturing and seafaring center. Its street pattern, lot divisions, cemetery, cranberry bog, and estate landscape still convey that layered history.","narrative":"Waquoit is a village in the town of Falmouth, at the head of Waquoit Bay on Cape Cod. This historic district covers roughly 170 acres along Main Street and contains 133 resources, including 66 contributing buildings, 5 structures and 10 sites. Most buildings are single-family houses, many built in the mid-19th century when the village prospered through manufacturing, seafaring and farming. Small mills on the Childs and Moonakis Rivers turned out wagons, building parts and coffins, though the industrial buildings have since disappeared. Surviving features include the 1847 Congregational Church, early farmhouses with barns, a cemetery dating from 1840, a working cranberry bog, and the late-19th century Sargent summer estate, the district's only designed landscape. Winding, tree-shaded roads and a lot pattern little changed since the 1840s help preserve the village setting. Areas heavily altered by modern subdivision were left out of the boundaries.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1700 - 1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian, Early Republic/Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most residential buildings from the period of significance remain; industrial and maritime buildings have been lost. One cranberry bog is still active, and the 1847 church, post office and cemetery uses continue.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.890232-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7939/63793923/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/04000086.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000086/3dde563204-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000086/3dde563204-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waquoit_Congregational_Church,_Waquoit_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:Waquoit_Congregational_Church,_Waquoit_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793923","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waquoit_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7968343"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/waquoit-historic-district-04000086/"}