{"nrhp_refnum":"08001069","name":"Prospect Hill School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"33 Montgomery St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.127627510000025,"lon":-72.74623673099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story red brick schoolhouse at 33 Montgomery Street in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, built in 1897 and remodeled in 1919 with a new Colonial Revival front facade.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the school under Criterion A for education and Criterion C for architecture. It represents the growth of Westfield's North Side school system and a Colonial Revival design. The 1897 building was designed by Augustus W. Holton, and the 1919 addition by Malcolm B. Harding.","narrative":"Prospect Hill School is a 2½-story red brick schoolhouse at 33 Montgomery Street in Westfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1897 with rough-cut sandstone trim, it was remodeled in 1919 to add classroom and assembly hall space and a new Colonial Revival front with a projecting gabled entry pavilion. Augustus W. Holton designed the original building, and Malcolm B. Harding designed the addition. Inside, the plan remains largely intact, with a central hall, six classrooms on the first floor, an upstairs auditorium with a proscenium arch, and woodwork with patera corner blocks. The school served a neighborhood on Prospect Hill that grew more crowded and more ethnically mixed around 1900, and it stood on the site of earlier district schools. It closed in 1991, and water damage and vandalism have since harmed the interior. Its significance rests on its role in local education from 1897 to 1958 and on its Colonial Revival design.","period_of_significance":"1897-1958","architect_builder":"Augustus W. Holton (1897 building); Malcolm B. Harding (1919 addition)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & Early 20th C. Revival: Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Closed as a school in 1991 and listed as vacant, not in use; suffered water damage and vandalism, and has been secured and is being dried out in preparation for renovation.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.519972-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7953/63795347/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/08001069.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001069/037893852f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001069/037893852f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prospect_Hill_School,_Westfield_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:Prospect_Hill_School,_Westfield_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08000506","name":"Westfield Center Commercial Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/westfield-center-commercial-historic-district-08000506/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795347","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Hill_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15378626"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/prospect-hill-school-08001069/"}