{"nrhp_refnum":"12000340","name":"Sullivan's Corner Historic District","other_names":["North Wrentham"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly jct. of Main, Needham, & Seekonk Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.121973000000054,"lon":-71.31286307321442,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small crossroads historic district of about eighteen acres in the northeastern part of Norfolk, Massachusetts, at the intersection of Main, Needham and Seekonk Streets. It centers on Norfolk Cemetery (1736/1745) and five nearby properties dating from the second quarter of the 19th century to the 1930s.","why_significant":"The district preserves a village crossroads with a continuous historic streetscape that adjacent construction lacks. It includes a Colonial-era cemetery with a range of grave marker styles, a well-preserved Greek Revival cape, and a rare early 20th-century corner store. The properties also reflect the Irish immigrant and farming families who lived there and the later growth of the area as Sullivan's Corner.","narrative":"Sullivan's Corner is a small historic crossroads in northeastern Norfolk, Massachusetts, where Main, Needham and Seekonk Streets meet. The district covers about eighteen acres, roughly a quarter of it taken up by Norfolk Cemetery, which dates to 1736 and 1745 and is now town-owned. Its grave markers run from early slate stones with winged skulls to Victorian Gothic marble and 20th-century granite blocks. Five other properties surround the cemetery: the Ware-Love House (ca. 1830), the Blake-Pond-Meehan House, a Greek Revival cape described as one of the best preserved in Norfolk, Sullivan's Store (ca. 1913), a corner store form not seen elsewhere in town, and the Colonial Revival Phelan House (ca. 1936). Records tie the buildings to local farming families, including Irish immigrants who bought property here in the 1800s. The district was listed because it keeps a continuous village streetscape that nearby newer construction does not match.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th-Early 20th Century Revivals: Greek Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The properties other than the cemetery are in residential use, including the former grocery store, which was converted to a dwelling during the period of significance. The cemetery remains in use and is town-owned.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.888394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7963/63796304/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/12000340.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000340/c865f4683b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000340/c865f4683b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorfolkMA_23SeekonkStreet.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:NorfolkMA_23SeekonkStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796304","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan%27s_Corner_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16900865"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/sullivans-corner-historic-district-12000340/"}