{"nrhp_refnum":"09000827","name":"West Village Historic District","other_names":["Pratt's Corner","Methody (Methodist) Corner(s)","Lower Village"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Allen Hill, Goodnow, Hubbardston, and Radford Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Princeton","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.447009500000064,"lon":-71.89185026742517,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 465-acre historic district in Princeton, Massachusetts, just west of the town center, centered on a six-corner crossroads of Allen Hill, Goodnow, Hubbardston and Radford Roads. It holds 81 contributing and 33 non-contributing resources, mostly houses, barns and farm landscapes from the late 18th to mid-20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district shows how a rural farming outpost became a crossroads village, then a summer resort area, and later a site of country estates. It keeps a wide range of architecture, from late 18th-century farmhouses to early 20th-century summer houses. It also retains stone walls, hayfields and farm lanes that reflect its agricultural past.","narrative":"West Village is a historic district of about 465 acres in Princeton, Massachusetts, just west of the town center. It grew around a six-corner crossroads where Allen Hill, Goodnow, Hubbardston and Radford Roads meet. By 1825 the crossroads held houses, a tavern, a store, a school and artisans' shops. From about 1860 to 1900 it served as a summer resort area with a hotel and many boardinghouses, and from the 1890s to the 1930s it drew summer cottages and country estates. The district contains 81 contributing resources, including 65 buildings, among them Cape Cod cottages, Federal houses, Greek Revival dwellings, Second Empire and Italianate buildings, and Colonial Revival and Shingle Style houses. Large barns, fieldstone walls, hayfields and farm lanes preserve the agricultural setting. One farm on Hubbardston Road is still worked for hay. The district was recognized for its architecture and for the way its buildings and landscape record successive phases of the village's development.","period_of_significance":"Ends in 1959; the start date is not given in the text provided","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Shingle Style, Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Ranch, Cape Cod Cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential village with some working farmland; one 1936 garage now serves as a small store and sub shop.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.167916-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7975/63797522/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000827.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000827/e41d8ece8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000827/e41d8ece8d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Izzysanime","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Village_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Izzysanime</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:West_Village_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797522","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Village_Historic_District_(Princeton,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17035946"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/west-village-historic-district-09000827/"}