{"nrhp_refnum":"74000390","name":"Park Street District","other_names":["See Also:Chester Harding House","Boston Athenaeum."],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Tremont, Park, and Beacon Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.35745325200003,"lon":-71.06174678399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Boston, Massachusetts, made up of the Granary Burying Ground and the buildings around it on the block bounded by Park, Beacon and Tremont Streets. The buildings date from the early Federal period to the late nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The district reflects Charles Bulfinch's early nineteenth-century plan to improve the eastern edge of Boston Common and the southern approach to the new State House. His plan joined the Common and the Granary Burying Ground and set a pattern of set back, height, scale and materials that later buildings respected. The Granary Burying Ground holds the graves of many prominent colonial Bostonians.","narrative":"Park Street District is a block of Boston centered on the Granary Burying Ground, with Park Street, Beacon Street and Tremont Street forming its edges. It includes the Park Street Church, designed by Peter Banner in 1809, and the Amory-Ticknor House, built in 1804 from plans by Charles Bulfinch. Later buildings include the Claflin Building of 1883, the Union Club buildings joined in 1896, and the Congregational House of 1898. The Chester Harding House and the Boston Athenaeum are also within the boundaries. The district was nominated because it reflects Bulfinch's plan to improve the edge of Boston Common and the approach to the State House. Although most of his original houses were replaced, the newer buildings follow the set back, height, scale and materials of the early ones. The burying ground, established in 1660, holds the graves of Paul Revere, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine and victims of the Boston Massacre, and its gravestones illustrate early New England carving.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles Bulfinch; Peter Banner; Solomon Willard; Edward Cabot; William G. Preston; Henry B. Ball; Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge","architectural_style":"Federal, with Greek Revival, Queen Anne and later commercial buildings","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good and altered; the district is in mixed public and private ownership and includes both occupied and unoccupied properties, with commercial, educational and religious uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.579242-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/7969/63796913/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/74000390.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000390/dcd6d54c68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74000390/dcd6d54c68-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Swampyank at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Street_Boston.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Swampyank at English Wikipedia</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:Park_Street_Boston.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796913","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Street_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7138055"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/park-street-district-74000390/"}