{"nrhp_refnum":"11000586","name":"Oxford Main Street Historic District","other_names":["Oxford Center HD"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Barton, Charlton, Church, E. Main, Elm, Fremont, & Main Sts., Quobaug Ave., Sigourney St., Sutton Ave., West St. Jackson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oxford","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.11613250000005,"lon":-71.8662787374127,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Industry","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 95 acres along Main Street in Oxford Center, Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It holds 223 contributing resources: 210 buildings, four sites and nine objects, mostly houses, civic buildings, churches and monuments from the 18th to mid-20th century.","why_significant":"The district is described as a significant concentration of historic resources in a farming and industrial town. It served as the civic and commercial center from the late 18th century and as a higher-income residential corridor in the 19th century. About 30% of its inventory dates from 1830 to 1870. The boundaries were drawn around the most intact historic properties and landscape features.","narrative":"Oxford Center is the historic core of Oxford, a farming and industrial town in southern Worcester County, about 50 miles southwest of Boston. This district covers roughly 95 acres along Main Street, with side streets to the west, and includes 223 contributing resources. Main Street keeps its broad historic width, sidewalks, mature trees and deep building setbacks. Civic landmarks include the 1873 Victorian Gothic Town Hall and the 1903 Classical Revival Charles Larned Memorial Library, built of pink granite and yellow brick. Joslin Park holds a bandstand, war memorials and a relocated 19th-century schoolhouse. South Cemetery contains gravestones dating from 1761, some attributed to regional carvers. Substantial 19th-century houses line the street, reflecting its role as higher-income residential area. The district was recognized as the greatest concentration of intact historic properties and landscape features associated with the town's civic, commercial and residential development from the early 19th to mid-20th century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Early Classical Revival, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Gothic, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle Style, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in mixed use: houses, three active churches, a library, town hall, commercial buildings and a cemetery. Recent changes include small commercial buildings and houses converted to commercial use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.730167-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7972/63797242/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/11000586.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000586/1680574972-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000586/1680574972-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"User:Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OxfordMA_MainStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797242","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Main_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16896313"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/oxford-main-street-historic-district-11000586/"}