{"nrhp_refnum":"79000328","name":"Shawsheen Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"MA 133","address_restricted":false,"city":"Andover","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.67213000000007,"lon":-71.14661986573421,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned company village of about 600 acres in northern Andover, Massachusetts, straddling the Shawsheen River, built 1919-1924 by the American Woolen Company on land bought in 1918 by William M. Wood.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a fully planned, self-sustaining community for company executives and office workers, laid out with housing, commercial, civic and recreational facilities. It absorbed the earlier Frye Village and retained its street system. Its buildings are largely in the Georgian Revival style.","narrative":"Shawsheen Village is a planned community in northern Andover, Massachusetts, laid out on about 600 acres along the Shawsheen River. William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company, bought the land in 1918 and the company built the village between 1919 and 1924. It absorbed the small settlement of Frye Village, whose mills were demolished while most existing houses and streets were kept. The village has three main parts: brick houses for senior executives west of the river, a central area of shops, offices and manufacturing, and smaller frame houses for middle-level office workers. More than two hundred homes were built, along with an administration building, post office, school, restaurant, creamery, community garages, power plant and brush mill. Georgian Revival design predominates. The district is described as a self-sufficient company town, and many of its buildings, including the 1924 Shawsheen School, remain in use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architects named for individual buildings include Reps and Boutiller (Shawsheen School), Adden and Parker (Community Garage), W.B. Knowlton (Creamery) and R.R. Slater (Brush Mill).","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival predominates in the Village","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent to good and altered; occupied, with private residences, industrial and other uses. The Merchants' Building was converted to apartments and the school remains in public use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.648512-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/7947/63794736/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/79000328.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000328/0b21875bca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000328/0b21875bca-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shawsheen_Village_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</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:Shawsheen_Village_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794736","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawsheen_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7491593"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/shawsheen-village-historic-district-79000328/"}