{"nrhp_refnum":"10000300","name":"Highland Spring Brewery Bottling and Storage Buildings","other_names":["Croft Brewery Bottling and Storage Building","Oliver Ditson &","Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"154-166 Terrace St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.32875994800003,"lon":-71.09804372999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-05-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of three contributing buildings at 154-166 Terrace Street in the Mission Hill/Roxbury area of Boston: an 1892 four-story brick bottling and storage building, a 1912 five-story concrete building, and a ca. 1945 one-story garage, all part of the former Highland Spring Brewery operation.","why_significant":"The complex is significant under Criterion A for its link to the brewing, publishing and manufacturing history of Boston's Roxbury and Mission Hill neighborhoods. It is significant under Criterion C as a group of preserved commercial and storehouse buildings. Its large, open, fireproof floor plates allowed reuse from brewery to publishing house and pickle factory.","narrative":"Three buildings on Terrace Street in Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood make up what remains of the Highland Spring Brewery's bottling and storage operations. The oldest, built in 1892, is a four-story Romanesque Revival red-brick structure. Beside it stands a five-story Georgian Revival building of steel-reinforced concrete, completed in 1912 and later used by the Oliver Ditson Company, a music publisher. A one-story garage from about 1945 completes the group. The brewery was founded in 1867 by Henry Rueter and John Alley and won a gold medal for its ale at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Tax rules of the period required bottling to be separate from brewing, and the 1892 building also had direct access to the adjacent railroad. After Prohibition, the large open floors were reused for publishing and pickle manufacturing. The buildings have been vacant for more than twenty years and show water damage and graffiti. The complex is recognized for its industrial history and its surviving architecture, with a period of significance of 1892 to 1960.","period_of_significance":"1892-1960","architect_builder":"William Beal; Monks and Johnson","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Romanesque Revival; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for over 20 years; the 1892 building is in fair to poor condition, with water infiltration in the masonry and heavy graffiti inside and out.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.834581-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7970/63797066/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/10000300.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000300/318eed6fc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000300/318eed6fc4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HighlandBottling1920.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797066","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Spring_Brewery_Bottling_and_Storage_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5759130"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/highland-spring-brewery-bottling-and-storage-buildings-10000300/"}