{"nrhp_refnum":"06000127","name":"East Boston High School, Old","other_names":["Joseph H. Barnes School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"127 Marion St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.378061271000036,"lon":-71.03740044399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-03-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old East Boston High School, later the Joseph H. Barnes School, is a three-story buff brick school at 127 Marion Street on Eagle Hill in East Boston, Boston. The original block dates to 1901, and a rear addition was built in 1933.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for architecture as a Renaissance Revival school designed by John Lyman Faxon, with a 1933 addition by Charles Reggio Greco. It is also significant in education and social history, reflecting the rise of public high school education in East Boston and later shifts toward intermediate and vocational schooling.","narrative":"Old East Boston High School, at 127 Marion Street on the south slope of Eagle Hill, is a three-story Renaissance Revival school of buff brick with limestone trim and a granite base. Completed and first occupied in 1901 to designs by John Lyman Faxon, it has a vaulted entrance porch with Ionic columns, carved stone balconies, and an interior of marble wainscoting, terrazzo floors and a domed semicircular auditorium. A 1933 rear addition by Charles Reggio Greco added classrooms and a cafeteria. The school served East Boston's growing population and reflected the new role of high schools as general preparation for college or working life. After a new high school opened on White Street in 1926, the building became the Joseph H. Barnes Intermediate School, named for a Civil War veteran from the neighborhood. Later plans show shops and home economics rooms, indicating a move toward vocational training. The building is now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1901-1955","architect_builder":"John Lyman Faxon; Charles Reggio Greco (1933 addition)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance (Renaissance Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant; the interior has had later alterations, and windows were replaced after 1933.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.372648-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7969/63796921/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06000127.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000127/afa6afd006-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000127/afa6afd006-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"User:Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_East_Boston_High_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Antony-22</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:Old_East_Boston_High_School.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"98000149","name":"Eagle Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/eagle-hill-historic-district-98000149/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796921","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_East_Boston_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7083891"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/east-boston-high-school-old-06000127/"}