{"nrhp_refnum":"09001096","name":"Marshfield Hills Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bow, Highland, Main, Old Main, Pleasant and Prospect Sts., Glen","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marshfield","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":42.14565600000006,"lon":-70.73959617528065,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic village district in Marshfield Hills, in the northwestern part of Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with 86 historic properties and 122 contributing resources dating from 1729 to 1959.","why_significant":"The district shows how a scattered farming area of the 17th and 18th centuries grew into a distinct village of homes, churches, municipal buildings and small businesses. It keeps a wide range of architectural styles, from Colonial Cape Cod cottages to mid-20th-century revival houses, with few modern intrusions. It still reflects development patterns that changed little between the early 19th century and about 1950, while other parts of Marshfield became commuter suburbs.","narrative":"Marshfield Hills is a village in the northwestern part of Marshfield, Massachusetts, and its historic district covers 86 properties holding 122 contributing resources built between 1729 and 1959. The oldest is a cemetery established in 1729. Most buildings are wood-frame houses on lots of about one acre, and one quarter of the houses follow the traditional Cape form. The district also includes two churches, a library, a former schoolhouse later used as a firehouse, and a former GAR Hall. Styles range from Federal and Greek Revival, the most common 19th-century choice, to Italianate, Queen Anne, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival. The district was drawn around the most intact buildings from its period of significance. Settlement grew from scattered farms into a village, and the arrival of the railroad in 1871 passed it by, so the village changed little. Building slowed after 1900 as lots ran out, leaving a well-preserved enclave of early development.","period_of_significance":"1729-1959","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"New England Colonial, Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Cape Cod Cottage","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic character is well preserved with minimal alteration; some former businesses, a school and a firehouse have been converted to other uses, and most properties remain single-family houses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.862527-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7965/63796552/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09001096.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001096/d1329deed7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09001096/d1329deed7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarshfieldMA_MarshfieldHills_NorthCommunityChurch.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarshfieldMA_MarshfieldHills_NorthCommunityChurch.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796552","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47535829"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/marshfield-hills-historic-district-09001096/"}