{"nrhp_refnum":"09000881","name":"Calhoun, Apartments, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1391-1399 Dwight St. & 85 Jefferson Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.11617561300005,"lon":-72.60330811299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story, L-shaped yellow-brick apartment block with ground-floor retail space at 1391-1399 Dwight Street and 85 Jefferson Avenue in Springfield's North End, Massachusetts. It was built in 1914 by Home Realty Trust to designs by architect James D. Long.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a representative example of the multifamily housing built in Springfield's streetcar neighborhoods in the early 20th century. It is also presented as a well-preserved work of local architect and engineer James D. Long. Its owners and tenants reflect the city's immigrant communities, particularly Jewish and later Hispanic residents.","narrative":"Located on the corner of Dwight Street and Jefferson Avenue in Springfield's North End, this four-story yellow-brick apartment block was built in 1914 by Home Realty Trust, a firm owned by the Alpert family, and designed by Springfield architect James D. Long. Its Classical Revival character shows in rounded bow-front bays, brownstone trim and beltcourses, and a bracketed, denticulated metal cornice. It was one of many bowfront brick tenements that housed clerical and industrial workers employed downtown, and its owners and tenants included Russian Jewish, Irish, French-Canadian, Italian and Portuguese families, with later ties to the city's Hispanic community. After years of vacancy, water damage and vandalism, the building was rehabilitated in 2007. The exterior was restored, the storefront and entrances returned to their historic configuration, and the interiors were redone as low-income apartments. It is the first of Long's buildings to be listed.","period_of_significance":"1914-1959","architect_builder":"LONG, James D. (b. 1890), Architect; HOME REALTY TRUST, General contractor","architectural_style":"Early 20th Century Revival: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 2007 as low-income apartments after a long vacancy; the corner storefront is now a tenant laundry room.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.640435-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/7953/63795317/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000881.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000881/e46881c8d3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000881/e46881c8d3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1391_Dwight_Street,_Springfield_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:1391_Dwight_Street,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795317","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calhoun_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16890071"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/calhoun-apartments-the-09000881/"}