{"nrhp_refnum":"82000490","name":"Longmeadow Historic District","other_names":["The Green"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Longmeadow St. from Birdie Rd. to Wheelmeadow Brook","address_restricted":false,"city":"Longmeadow","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.04937950000004,"lon":-72.57868248458819,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Military","Education","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A village-center historic district in Longmeadow, Hampden County, Massachusetts, built around a half-mile-long Village Green along Longmeadow Street (U.S. Route 5). It contains 51 buildings dating from the early 18th to the 20th century, plus a burial ground and monuments.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the district as a well-preserved New England town center. Its Green dates from 1703 settlement, and the surrounding houses, church, library, school and tavern buildings show the evolution of architectural styles from Georgian and Federal through Italianate, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival. It is evaluated as locally significant, with notable works such as the Nathaniel Ely House and a Calvert Vaux-designed villa.","narrative":"Longmeadow's historic center is organized around a half-mile-long Village Green on a plateau east of the Connecticut River. Settlers received house lots along the highway in 1703 after trouble with flooding and conflict in the lowland meadows, and the former sand drift was gradually cultivated into the present lawn. Cottage industries and shops once crowded the Green, but the area was cleared of structures in 1898 and returned to open space. Around it stand 51 buildings, including the Town Hall, First Church of Christ, schools, a library, a historical museum, an old country store and 43 residences. The houses show a broad range of styles: the brick Georgian Nathaniel Ely House of 1785, a Gothic Revival cottage based on Andrew Jackson Downing's designs, an Italianate villa by Calvert Vaux, and many Colonial Revival buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. Together they document the town's growth from the early eighteenth century into the twentieth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Calvert Vaux (Thomas Mather House); Smith and Bassette; Malcolm B. Harding; Morris Maloney; David White; Nathaniel Ely","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings and the Green are described as in excellent state of preservation and largely occupied; the area has been a local historic district since 1973.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.770452-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/13/7952/63795213/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82000490.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000490/12071dbe51-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82000490/12071dbe51-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Church_of_Christ,_Longmeadow_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:First_Church_of_Christ,_Longmeadow_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795213","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmeadow_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6674100"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/longmeadow-historic-district-82000490/"}