{"nrhp_refnum":"75000276","name":"Hillside Avenue Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Property on both sides of Hillside and Grand View Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Medford","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42029312000005,"lon":-71.11218016099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of twenty houses on Hillside Avenue and Grand View Avenue on a steep hill just west of Medford Square, Medford, Massachusetts, developed mainly between about 1875 and 1897, with a few later houses.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a major example of late nineteenth century suburban development in Medford. It has substantial architect-designed houses in a range of styles, a dramatic hillside site, brick sidewalks and granite curbs, and an original population of prosperous merchants and professionals who commuted to Boston by train.","narrative":"Twenty houses on Hillside Avenue and Grand View Avenue climb a steep hill west of Medford Square, forming a late nineteenth century suburb built for people who commuted to Boston by train. The land was once part of Thatcher Magoun's estate and was laid out as early as 1875, though most building came after 1889. The earliest house is a granite residence built by stone mason Nicholas White. The Bela Warner House, about 1884, crowns the hill and mixes Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Shingle elements. Later houses by architects and builders add Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival designs for grocers, merchants, clerks and a music teacher. Brick sidewalks, granite curbs and wide views toward Boston add to the setting. A fifteen foot cliff separates the area from its surroundings. Four modern houses and a few mid-twentieth century additions intrude, but the group is valued as a cohesive example of suburban development in Medford.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"multiple; Coburn & Sons of Lewiston, Maine; Kingsbury and Richardson of Boston; Edmund Kingsbury; John W. Russell; John Nolan (contractor); Nicholas White (stone mason)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Shingle, and Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and the district is occupied and privately owned. Some houses have been altered with aluminum or vinyl siding, and several modern houses are intrusions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.494171-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7960/63796069/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/75000276.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000276/3fb926a774-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000276/3fb926a774-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MedfordMA_HillsideAvenueHD.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:MedfordMA_HillsideAvenueHD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796069","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillside_Avenue_Historic_District_(Medford,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715539"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/hillside-avenue-historic-district-75000276/"}