{"nrhp_refnum":"10000389","name":"Hazelwood Park","other_names":["John Halliwell Memorial Park"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"597-603 Brock Ave","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Bedford","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.606655380000035,"lon":-70.91355934374484,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-06-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hazelwood Park is a 23-acre public park in the Clark's Cove area of New Bedford, Massachusetts, created in 1901 from three earlier rural estates and overlooking Buzzard's Bay. It contains six buildings, memorials and recreation facilities.","why_significant":"The park preserves the grounds and houses of estates begun around 1840 in the English landscape gardening tradition, including two of New Bedford's earliest Gothic Revival houses. It also holds a 1924 memorial to abolitionist mayor Rodney French, placed by African Americans in New Bedford, and shows how the park was adapted for active recreation from 1912. The form also ties it to the Howland family and the architects Wheelwright and Haven.","narrative":"Hazelwood Park is a 23-acre seaside park in New Bedford's South End, sloping from Brock Avenue west toward Clark's Cove and Buzzard's Bay. Established in 1901, it was assembled from three rural estates, the earliest dating to about 1840 and laid out in the English landscape gardening tradition. Three principal houses survive. Two of them, built of stone and wood in the 1840s, are among the city's earliest examples of Gothic Revival design, though both are now vacant and badly deteriorated. A later Shingle Style house and barn from about 1890 partly serves as a senior center. From 1912 the grounds were adapted for active recreation, and they now hold tennis and basketball courts, a bowling green, a playground, a beach, a bath house and a bandstand. Memorials include a 1924 boulder plaque, erected by Black residents of New Bedford, honoring abolitionist mayor Rodney French, along with a 1932 Washington memorial grove. Open lawns and ocean views continue to serve passive recreation.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Wheelwright and Haven (Edmund M. Wheelwright and Parkman B. Haven), associated with the Howland house and landscape; other builders not stated in the excerpt","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Gothic Revival; Late Victorian/Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Congdon-Lucas and Coffin-Howland houses are vacant and greatly deteriorated; part of the Howland House and Barn is used as a senior center; the park remains in use for recreation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.995039-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/76/7944/63794476/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/10000389.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000389/636050572e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000389/636050572e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NewBedfordMA_HazelwoodPark_CongdonHouse_1.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:NewBedfordMA_HazelwoodPark_CongdonHouse_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794476","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_Park_(New_Bedford,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16841827"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/hazelwood-park-10000389/"}