{"nrhp_refnum":"66000774","name":"Old Deerfield Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"W of US 5, bounded by Mill Village Rd., \"The Street\", Broughton's Pond Rd., and Pogues Hole Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Deerfield","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.54346566900006,"lon":-72.60448720599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1960-10-09","areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old Deerfield Village Historic District in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, a district of historic houses and outbuildings listed in 1966 and also designated a National Historic Landmark. This document is a 2009-2011 supplement revising construction dates for individual houses using tree-ring dating.","why_significant":"The supplement does not restate the district's original significance. It reports that tree-ring testing of attic and roof timbers in about 20 village houses refined or changed their dates, with results ranging from the early 1710s to the 1820s. The findings sometimes match deeds, account books and fire records, and sometimes show reused timber or later remodeling.","narrative":"Old Deerfield Village Historic District in Franklin County, Massachusetts, includes a large group of houses from the 1700s and early 1800s. This supplemental material records new construction dates for roughly twenty of them, based on tree-ring analysis done mainly by conservator William Flynt of Historic Deerfield in 2001 and 2004. Timbers from attics and roof frames were sampled and matched against dated ring sequences. The Eliezer Hawks House was dated to 1714, the Timothy Childs House to 1730, the Allen House to 1734, and the Eldad Bardwell House to 1771-72. Some results matched written records, such as house fires followed by rebuilding. Others showed reused timber or later work, as at the Nims House, where roof framing dates to the early 1790s, and the Hinsdell-Williams House, remodeled in 1817. A few buildings, including the William Russell House, still lack firm dates. The district was listed in 1966 and is also a National Historic Landmark.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 01:59:07.891408-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7951/63795149/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/66000774.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000774/d9ed8446e8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000774/d9ed8446e8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Historical Perspective 2","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwight_House,_Historic_Deerfield.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Historical Perspective 2</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dwight_House,_Historic_Deerfield.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795149","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Deerfield_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49534964"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/old-deerfield-village-historic-district-66000774/"}