{"nrhp_refnum":"72000132","name":"Monument Square-Eagle Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Monument Square-Eagle Historic District (Boundary I"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Monument Square and environs, at E end of Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Adams","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.69924480200007,"lon":-73.10982704999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about six acres in North Adams, Massachusetts, centered on Monument Square and Eagle Street. It includes four churches, the former Blackinton Mansion (now the public library), and a row of nineteenth-century commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district shows North Adams' growth from a rural village to an urban mill community across the 19th century. Eagle Street is described as an integrated group of clapboard and brick commercial buildings from the 1830s to 1880s with no non-conforming intrusions. The square's churches and the Blackinton Mansion reflect the effects of the Industrial Revolution and the wealth of local industrialists.","narrative":"Monument Square and Eagle Street form the historic core of North Adams, Massachusetts. The square, named for a soldiers' monument raised in the 1870s after the Civil War, is ringed by churches: the First Baptist Church (rebuilt 1879 after a fire), the Lombard Romanesque First Congregational Church (1863-64), and the Unitarian Universalist Church (1893). On the east side stands the Blackinton Mansion, begun in 1869 and ready in 1872 for woolen manufacturer Sanford Blackinton. It later became the public library. Nearby, the 1782 Old Meeting House survives as a residence. Eagle Street, given to the town by Captain Jeremiah Colgrove in 1805, holds a row of commercial buildings, including the Flatiron Building (1830, enlarged 1852) and the brick Tower and Porter Building (1886). Shops occupy the ground floors and apartments the upper floors. The district was listed as a well-preserved group showing how the town moved from clapboard village to brick-built mill city.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":"Charles E. Parker of Boston (First Congregational Church); H. Neil Wilson of Pittsfield (Unitarian Universalist Church)","architectural_style":"Lombard Romanesque, Richardsonian and Classical, Italianate and Second Empire, Gothic, Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked fair. Buildings remain in mixed use: shops and apartments on Eagle Street, churches, and the Blackinton Mansion as the public library. Many buildings have altered siding.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.584841-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7942/63794210/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/72000132.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000132/4c4b683507-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000132/4c4b683507-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Street_North_Adams.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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:Main_Street_North_Adams.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85003623","name":"Monument Square-Eagle Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/monument-square-eagle-street-historic-district-boundary-increase-85003623/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794210","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Square%E2%80%93Eagle_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6906845"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/monument-square-eagle-street-historic-district-72000132/"}