{"nrhp_refnum":"12000978","name":"Sherman Apartments Historic District","other_names":["Dorchester Academy"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"544-546 Washington, 4-6, 12-14, 18 Lyndhurst Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.29259250000004,"lon":-71.07128985421735,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-11-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-building district at the corner of Washington and Lyndhurst Streets in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, near Codman Square. It has three brick apartment buildings from 1904-1906 and an 1831 wood-frame former school.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the group as a coherent early 20th-century apartment development by Walter U. Sherman, built in a Classical Revival style at a middle-class scale. It also preserves the 1831 Dorchester Academy, a Greek Revival school moved to make room for the apartments. The buildings reflect Codman Square's growth after streetcar electrification.","narrative":"Four buildings at the corner of Washington and Lyndhurst Streets in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood make up this district at the northern edge of Codman Square. Walter U. Sherman built three three-story brick apartment buildings here between 1904 and 1906, each first designed as a six-family dwelling and later divided into twelve units. They share a Classical Revival character, with central paired recessed entrances, rounded bays, granite and cast-stone detailing, and brick banding. The fourth building, at 18 Lyndhurst Street, dates to 1831 and began as the Dorchester Academy, a private boys' school. Its Greek Revival design features fluted Doric columns and a pediment. Sherman turned it 90 degrees and moved it about 75 feet to make room for the apartments, and it later became a two-family home. Together the buildings show how Codman Square developed once electrified streetcars improved access to downtown Boston. Many original details survive, though most windows have been replaced.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Walter U. Sherman (builder/developer of the apartment buildings, 1904-1906)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival, Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions are listed as multiple dwelling and vacant/not in use; the form notes some windows are in poor condition due to lack of maintenance.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:52.032621-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7968/63796861/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/12000978.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000978/2ae3add821-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000978/2ae3add821-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BostonMA_ShermanApartments_LyndhurstStreet.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:BostonMA_ShermanApartments_LyndhurstStreet.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796861","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Apartments_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15964584"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/sherman-apartments-historic-district-12000978/"}