{"nrhp_refnum":"08001127","name":"Leverett Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Amherst, Montague, Depot, and Shutesbury Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Leverett","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.46395287200005,"lon":-72.50567562299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-12-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural, mostly residential historic district of about 467 acres in the center of Leverett, Franklin County, Massachusetts. It stretches roughly two miles along Depot and Montague Roads and holds 46 contributing resources, mainly houses plus civic, institutional and industrial buildings.","why_significant":"The district preserves the civic, religious and residential core of a small hill town, with vernacular Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival buildings from about 1750 to 1958. It shows how the town developed, including the separation of church and state that led to a separate church and town hall. It also has ties to portrait painter Erastus Salisbury Field.","narrative":"Leverett Center Historic District covers about 467 acres in the southern half of Leverett, a rural Franklin County town of roughly 2,000 people. It runs about two miles along Depot and Montague Roads and centers on a civic core near Leverett Pond, where the town common once lay. Town Hall, the Post Office, the First Congregational Church, the former Beaman-Marvell Box Factory and the Field Memorial Library cluster there. Most contributing buildings are modest wood-frame houses with restrained detail, representing Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival styles. Stone walls line the roads, and no working farms remain, though historic barns survive. The district holds 46 contributing and 51 noncontributing resources, and its period of significance runs from about 1750 to 1958. It reflects the town's growth from farming settlement to a small center with a railroad link, a box factory and the separation of church and town government. Painter Erastus Salisbury Field is among the local figures associated with the area.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1750-1958","architect_builder":"Josiah Pomeroy, Jr. (carpenter, First Congregational Church); Karl S. Putnam (Field Memorial Library); Bernhard Dirks (Leverett Elementary School)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The general condition of the buildings is described as good, though some, such as the Field Tavern, are altered and dilapidated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.268679-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/7951/63795107/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/08001127.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001127/738b4ef14e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001127/738b4ef14e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leverett_Congregational_Church,_Leverett_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:Leverett_Congregational_Church,_Leverett_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795107","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverett_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6535286"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/leverett-center-historic-district-08001127/"}