{"nrhp_refnum":"08001177","name":"Chesterfield Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main Rd., S. St., N. St., Bagg Rd., Bryant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chesterfield","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.39509975800007,"lon":-72.84979718699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district at the crossroads center of Chesterfield, a hill town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, along Main Road, North and South Streets, and parts of Bagg Road and Bryant Street. It holds 81 contributing resources, including churches, houses, a cemetery and outbuildings, dating from the Georgian period onward.","why_significant":"The district is the institutional and civic core of Chesterfield, with its church, Grange Hall, town offices, library, museum and post office. It preserves a range of architectural styles from Georgian and Federal through Greek Revival and later Victorian and Colonial Revival, including connected farm buildings typical of New England. Its period of significance ends in 1958, and resources built after that date are counted as noncontributing.","narrative":"Chesterfield Center is the civic heart of a hill town in western Massachusetts, laid out along a crossroads of Main Road with North and South Streets. The district includes the First Congregational Church, the Methodist Church, the Grange Hall, town offices, a library, a museum, a post office and a general store, surrounded by houses with barns, carriage houses and other outbuildings. Its buildings trace the town's growth from a Georgian Cape of about 1775 through Federal houses such as the 1822 Starkweather House, with its reeded corner pilasters, to Greek Revival churches and homes of the 1830s to 1850s. Connected farm buildings show how households organized their farmyards. Prominent early residents, including a lawyer and the town's first physician, helped shape the civic focus of the center. The district contains 81 contributing resources, among them the Center Cemetery, and its significance period runs to 1958.","period_of_significance":"Ends in 1958 (start date not shown in the provided text)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italian Villa, Gothic, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use for homes, a church, Grange Hall, town offices, library, museum, post office and a general store; a few resources have been altered or lost.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.972136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/41/7954/63795441/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/08001177.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001177/8458bb8b45-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001177/8458bb8b45-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chesterfield_Senior_Center,_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:Chesterfield_Senior_Center,_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795441","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterfield_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16890269"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/chesterfield-center-historic-district-08001177/"}