{"nrhp_refnum":"08000553","name":"Springside Park","other_names":["Elmhurst Abbott Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"874 North St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsfield","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.463737765000076,"lon":-73.24523800699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Springside Park is a 237.5-acre public park and historic district in the North End of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It centers on Springside House (formerly Elmhurst), an Italianate-style house, along with a Gothic Revival barn, outbuildings, a pond, trails and ballfields.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as Pittsfield's largest public park, grown through donated and purchased land from the 1930s through the 1950s. It preserves the former Elmhurst estate and its house, which the city converted to community and parks department use. The document's Section 8 excerpt is truncated, so the stated criteria and period of significance are not visible.","narrative":"Springside Park is a 237.5-acre public park in the North End of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, framed by North Street, Crane Avenue, Benedict Road and Springside Avenue. Most of it is wooded, and nearly all of the developed area lies in the southwest quadrant. The focal point is Springside House, formerly called Elmhurst, a wood-frame Italianate house on a knoll. It has a mansard-roofed section, a flat-roofed tower, a gambrel-roofed ell and a wraparound verandah. Nearby are a Gothic Revival barn, a ca. 1920 garage, a 1939 brick bath house, Springside Pond, rusticated stone gateposts and a greenhouse complex. The park grew through a major enlargement in 1939 and later purchases in the 1950s, and the house opened for community use in 1941. In 1954 it became the headquarters of the city's parks department. A middle school now occupies part of the original parkland. Later outbuildings and the relocated Victory Hill House are counted as noncontributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"House - Late Victorian: Italianate/Second Empire; Barn - Mid-19th Century: Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Springside House serves as the Parks and Recreation Department office and headquarters. The park is in current recreational use, and the greenhouse complex is used by the Springside Greenhouse Club.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.555691-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7942/63794230/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/08000553.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000553/c587bb702f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000553/c587bb702f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ivan Newton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Springside_Park.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivan Newton</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:Springside_Park.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794230","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springside_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900453"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/springside-park-08000553/"}