{"nrhp_refnum":"10000787","name":"Jarvesville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Liberty, Main, Jarves, and Church Sts, and the town landing","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sanwich","county":"Barnstable County","state":"MA","lat":41.76077150000006,"lon":-70.491646290562,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-09-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Community Planning and Development","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 137-acre historic district in the northern coastal part of Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, northeast of Sandwich Center. It surrounds the former Boston & Sandwich Glass Company site and holds 211 contributing resources dating from ca. 1746 to 1960, mostly worker and manager housing.","why_significant":"The district is a surviving industrial village built around the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, founded in 1825 by Deming Jarves. It preserves worker housing, commercial and religious buildings, and landscape remains of the glassworks such as shipping canals, pilings and a park. The company drew many immigrant workers and was the largest industrial employer in Barnstable County by 1830.","narrative":"Jarvesville is a 137-acre neighborhood in northern Sandwich, Massachusetts, that grew up around the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, which opened in 1825 under Deming Jarves. The district holds 211 contributing resources, most of them modest single-family and multifamily houses built from about 1825 to 1860 for glass-factory workers, in Greek Revival and Federal forms. Larger houses closer to Sandwich Center were built for managers. Jarves Street forms a commercial spine, with buildings such as the 1883 Block and the 1901 Corpus Christi Church. No glassworks buildings survive, but the site is marked by canals cut through the salt marsh, wooden pilings from a horse railroad, a former park, and glass fragments and slag. The company drew many English and Irish workers, and a Roman Catholic chapel built here around 1830 is considered the first on Cape Cod. The district was listed for this record of a 19th-century industrial village and its landscape.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1746-1960 (the form says contributing resources date from ca. 1746 through a period of significance ending in 1960)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; Italianate; Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most contributing resources remain in residential use; no industrial buildings of the glass works remain. The former factory site is partly redeveloped with 20th-century houses or left unimproved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.934166-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/7939/63793962/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/10000787.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000787/13eb2f39d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000787/13eb2f39d6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RadPal","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jarvesville_Historic_District.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RadPal</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:Jarvesville_Historic_District.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793962","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvesville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892857"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/barnstable-county/jarvesville-historic-district-10000787/"}