{"nrhp_refnum":"79000336","name":"North Andover Center Historic District","other_names":["Center Village","see also:Kittredge Mansion"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Osgood, Pleasant, Stevens, Johnson, and Andover Sts. and Wood Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Andover","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.687110500000045,"lon":-71.11513342114512,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about seventy structures centered on the triangular town common in North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. Buildings range from 1715 to the late 19th century and the area was once the town's farming center.","why_significant":"The district is described as representing three centuries of North Andover history. It holds a concentrated collection of Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Mansard and Carpenter Gothic buildings, with open land, burying grounds and memorials. The significance statement is truncated, but review notes describe it as architectural and historical, with a historic town character marked by spaciousness.","narrative":"North Andover's old town center is a district of about seventy buildings gathered around a triangular common and the streets that converge on it. Once the heart of a farming community, it is mostly residential, with open land between the buildings. Seven early 19th century Federal houses line two sides of the common, and the district also includes Georgian, Greek Revival, Italianate, Mansard and Carpenter Gothic examples. The earliest building is the Parson Barnard House of 1715. Other landmarks include the Georgian Phillips Mansion of 1752, the Kittredge Mansion of 1784, the Brick Store of 1829, and the Carpenter Gothic North Parish Church of 1833, designed by Richard Bond of Boston. Two burying grounds hold fine 18th century stone carving. A statue of Phillips Brooks, who wrote the words to \"O Little Town of Bethlehem,\" stands nearby. A row of late 19th century worker housing on Stevens Street was built for a woolen mill. Together the buildings show three centuries of the town's growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Bond of Boston (North Parish Church, 1833); Dr. Thomas Kittredge (Kittredge Mansion, 1784); Samuel Phillips (Phillips Mansion, 1752)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Mansard, Carpenter Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential and sparsely settled, with a few commercial buildings, two burying grounds and a community center. The form marks the district as altered, with some buildings stripped of original character.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.132796-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7946/63794618/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/79000336.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000336/ee0f30b5ec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000336/ee0f30b5ec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stevens-Coolidge_Place,_North_Andover_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stevens-Coolidge_Place,_North_Andover_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794618","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Andover_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7053942"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/north-andover-center-historic-district-79000336/"}