{"nrhp_refnum":"06001057","name":"Colrain Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main, Greenfield, Jacksonville Rds., Streeter Ln, River and Coburn Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Colrain","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.67342350000007,"lon":-72.69793644145565,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A densely settled rural village center in Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts, radiating from a small triangular common. It includes 91 resources on about 30 acres, mostly 19th and early 20th century buildings.","why_significant":"The district keeps its 19th century village appearance, with a mix of institutional, civic, commercial and residential buildings in Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Neoclassical styles. It includes the architect-designed Griswold Memorial Library and buildings tied to the town's farming, textile and civic history.","narrative":"Colrain Center is the village core of Colrain, Massachusetts, where Main, Greenfield and Jacksonville Roads meet at a small triangular common. The district holds 91 resources on about 30 acres, including houses, churches, stores, a library, a school, and war memorials. Most buildings are vernacular versions of 19th century styles, ranging from Federal to Queen Anne and Neoclassical, and slate roofs and weatherboard siding are common. Two 1830s brick churches, one Greek Revival and one Gothic Revival, anchor the common. Memorial Hall, built in 1895 for Civil War veterans, and the 1908 Griswold Memorial Library, designed by McLean and Wright of Boston and given by a local cotton manufacturing family, are the main civic landmarks. The village grew with farming, textile mills and an electric railway opened in 1896. Several hotels once stood beside the common, but fires destroyed them, and that site remains vacant. Some buildings beside the common are condemned.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"McLean and Wright of Boston (Griswold Memorial Library, built by Robert E. Pray and Co. of Greenfield); M.R. Drew (third Colrain hotel, no longer standing)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are in fair to excellent condition; four buildings beside the common (Brick Store, Tin Shop, Horace Winchester House, Clark Chandler Store) are condemned and vacant, and Memorial Hall has been vacant since 2004.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.175546-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/19/7951/63795119/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06001057.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001057/10f76eb859-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001057/10f76eb859-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brick_Meeting_House,_Colrain_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:Brick_Meeting_House,_Colrain_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795119","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colrain_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5149359"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/colrain-center-historic-district-06001057/"}