{"nrhp_refnum":"73000850","name":"Town Hill District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded roughly by Rutherford Ave. and Main and Warren Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.373308500000064,"lon":-71.06319084695664,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic residential and commercial district on and around Town Hill in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, covering about 11 acres of late Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and later nineteenth-century buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district holds the best-preserved cluster of Pre-Federalist and Federalist buildings in Boston, including 11 late Georgian and Federal residences. Its street pattern traces to a 1641 plan and was respected when the town was rebuilt after the 1775 burning. It also has ties to figures such as Edward Everett and the Thompson family.","narrative":"Town Hill in Charlestown, Boston, is a dense neighborhood of small-scale buildings from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, laid out along streets that follow the sloping ground. The street plan goes back to a 1641 layout by engineer Thomas Graves. After the British burned Charlestown in 1775, rebuilding kept the original street pattern. Eleven surviving residences date from the late Georgian and Federal periods, which the nomination describes as the best-preserved cluster of its kind in Boston. Notable buildings include the brick Edward Everett House, the splitstone house at 92 Main Street, the Warren Tavern, the Benjamin Thompson House, and the wooden Larkin and Hurd mansions. St. John's Church, built in 1841 by Richard Bond, shows early Gothic Revival design. Brick row houses, Greek Revival rows and Italianate townhouses on Harvard Street add later nineteenth-century variety. The district covers roughly 11 acres and includes homes, shops, a church and a park.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Bond (St. John's Church, 1841); Matthew Bridge (Edward Everett House); Timothy Thompson, Sr. (119 Main Street); Nathaniel Austin (reputedly, 92 Main Street)","architectural_style":"Late Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mixed condition ranging from excellent to deteriorated; some buildings are altered, with ground floors converted to commercial use. Uses include residential, commercial, educational, religious and park.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.498859-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7970/63797034/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/73000850.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000850/42f8de1e34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000850/42f8de1e34-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Town_Hill_District_Boston_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Town_Hill_District_Boston_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797034","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Hill_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7829978"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/town-hill-district-73000850/"}