{"nrhp_refnum":"76000956","name":"Third Meetinghouse","other_names":["Grange Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1 Fairhaven Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mattapoisett","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":41.66203902500007,"lon":-70.81983586599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story clapboarded former meetinghouse at 1 Fairhaven Road (Route 6) in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, built in 1816 and remodeled in the Italianate manner in 1857. It is also known as Grange Hall.","why_significant":"The building is cited for its architectural quality along a heavily commercialized stretch of Route 6, and for its role in the town's political development and education. It hosted a long 1837 town meeting on separating from Rochester and later housed the Mattapoisett Academy and the public Barstow School.","narrative":"Built in 1816 as the third meetinghouse of the Mattapoisett congregation, this two-story clapboarded building at 1 Fairhaven Road sits on a quarter-acre lot along Route 6. It was moved toward the sea after a hurricane in 1815 damaged the previous meetinghouse, as the town shifted from farming to shipbuilding. The congregation used it for twenty-eight years and also held town meetings there, including a session from March to July 1837 on separation from Rochester, which was resolved when Mattapoisett was incorporated in 1857. The building was remodeled in the Italianate style in 1857, with double pediments, round-arched windows and a bracketed cornice. It housed the Mattapoisett Academy from 1854 to 1862 and the public Barstow School from 1871 for twenty-eight years. Grange #215 bought it in 1915 and used it for community functions. It is one of few buildings of architectural quality left along this stretch of highway.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and used as a Grange hall; plans for future use were still being developed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.311963-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7965/63796590/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/76000956.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000956/d9556fc74e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000956/d9556fc74e-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Schlitzer90","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Third_Meetinghouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Schlitzer90</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Third_Meetinghouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Meetinghouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7784894"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/third-meetinghouse-76000956/"}