{"nrhp_refnum":"09000086","name":"High Rock Tower-High Rock Cottage and Daisy Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"15, 17 Campbell Terr. and High Rock Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynn","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.467602604000035,"lon":-70.94786220299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-and-one-half-acre district at the summit and south slope of High Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts, containing High Rock Park, the 1904 granite High Rock Tower, High Rock Cottage and Daisy Cottage (both c.1847), and an 1892 house at 30 Johns Avenue.","why_significant":"The group is significant for its association with the Hutchinson family, whose Hutchinson Family Singers took part in temperance, abolitionist and women's suffrage causes in the nineteenth century. The cottages are Gothic Revival buildings built by the family, and the 1904 tower is a local example of Romanesque Revival architecture. The site was also a place for public celebrations and meetings and a frequent subject of artists' views of Lynn.","narrative":"High Rock, a hill rising 170 feet in Lynn, Massachusetts, holds a small group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings on about four and a half acres. They include a square granite observation tower of 1904, designed by H.K. Wheeler and C. Betton, and two cottages begun around 1847 by the Hutchinson family. High Rock Cottage is built of local porphyry with granite trim in the Gothic Revival style; Daisy Cottage is a wooden house with pointed-arch windows and label mouldings. An 1892 three-and-a-half-story house at 30 Johns Avenue is also included, along with High Rock Park. The Hutchinson Family Singers lived here and performed at rallies for temperance, abolition and women's suffrage. John Hutchinson built an auditorium on the property in 1892 and later gave the summit to the city for an observatory. The earlier tower of 1847-48 was burned by vandals after the fall of Richmond, and the present tower replaced it.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"High Rock Cottage (Lewis and Harney?); High Rock Tower (Wheeler and Betton)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival (cottages); Romanesque Revival (tower)","criteria":[],"status_note":"The tower's first-story windows and entry are boarded, and its original domed observatory has been removed. The cottages have lost porches and bargeboards, and Daisy Cottage and 30 Johns Avenue are covered in asphalt siding.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.128719-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7949/63794998/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000086.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000086/e2ab6c6f08-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000086/e2ab6c6f08-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Pilgrimsong","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Rock_Tower,_Lynn,_Ma_USA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Pilgrimsong</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:High_Rock_Tower,_Lynn,_Ma_USA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794998","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Rock_Tower_Reservation","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16843173"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/high-rock-tower-high-rock-cottage-and-daisy-cottage-09000086/"}