{"nrhp_refnum":"06000716","name":"Hill Cemetery and Parson Hubbard House Historic District","other_names":["Hubbard-Anderson House","Rev. Robert Hubbard House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Old Village Rd., 72 Old Village Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shelburne","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.598757000000035,"lon":-72.68761014032117,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Art","Agriculture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district on Old Village Hill in Shelburne, Massachusetts, made up of the Hill Cemetery (with more than 250 gravestones from 1774 onward) and the adjacent Parson Hubbard House, built ca. 1773 and 1778, plus a carriage shed, barn and blacksmith shop foundation.","why_significant":"The cemetery holds gravestones by identified carvers of the Deerfield School (Solomon Ashley and John Locke) and the Chapin shop of Bernardston, showing the shift from soul effigies to mourning imagery. The Federal-style house was built for the Rev. Robert Hubbard, the village minister, and stands at the old center of Shelburne. Together they record the Federal-period life of the Hill settlement. The excerpt does not give the criteria or the period of significance.","narrative":"On the crest of Old Village Hill in Shelburne, a cemetery and a minister's house sit side by side. Hill Cemetery covers about two acres and holds more than 250 markers, mostly slate from nearby Ashfield and Goshen, followed by marble, granite and sandstone. The earliest stone dates to 1774. Carvers from the Deerfield School, including Solomon Ashley and John Locke, and the Chapin shop of Bernardston produced many of them. Their work moves from soul effigies to urns and weeping willows, and later to obelisks marking family plots. Next to the cemetery is the Parson Hubbard House, a 2½-story Federal building raised in 1778 for the Rev. Robert Hubbard, with an older kitchen ell from about 1773. Inside are paneled rooms, fireplace surrounds and sliding shutters. A carriage shed and barn from about 1880 and the foundations of a blacksmith shop complete the district, which preserves the early village center of Shelburne.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic - Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Cemetery grounds are in good condition and maintained by the town, while the stones are in fair to poor condition. The house is a private single dwelling, with vinyl siding on parts of the exterior.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.171701-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7950/63795093/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06000716.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000716/585bf447a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000716/585bf447a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parson_Hubbard_House,_Shelburne_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:Parson_Hubbard_House,_Shelburne_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795093","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Cemetery_and_Parson_Hubbard_House_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5762054"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/hill-cemetery-and-parson-hubbard-house-historic-district-06000716/"}