{"nrhp_refnum":"82001896","name":"New Marlborough Village","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"MA 57, New Marlborough, Monterey and Southfield Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Marlborough","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.123432500000064,"lon":-73.22968496045387,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Military","Transportation","Education","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic village district centered on a green in New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, covering about 214 acres with twenty-one buildings, six historic archaeological sites, the Green and an old burial ground. Settlement began in the 1740s, and most surviving buildings date from the late 18th to mid-19th centuries.","why_significant":"It is the original settlement of Township Number Two (now New Marlborough) and was the focus of civic and commercial life from the mid-18th to late 19th centuries. It preserves an unusually fine group of Federal and Greek Revival houses along with historic archaeological sites. The nomination also suggests it may meet Criterion D, pending archaeological survey.","narrative":"New Marlborough Village is a rural New England district of about 214 acres built around a tree-shaded green given to the town by the Cincinnatus Lodge of Masons in 1795. It includes twenty-one buildings, six historic archaeological sites, an old burial ground and a monument to Elihu Burritt, the \"Learned Blacksmith.\" Most buildings are wood-frame Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival farmhouses, among them a tavern that served as a stage stop and post office, and a Greek Revival meeting house built in 1839. The village began when Benjamin Wheeler wintered here in 1739-1740, and it was the town's civic and commercial center from the mid-18th to late 19th centuries. Sites such as the Southern Berkshire Institute, a brass foundry and a blacksmith shop record its education and industry. The concentration of well-preserved buildings and early settlement sites supports its listing for history and architecture.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Mr. Sikes (draftsman of the Congregational Church); Thomas Tattilow (contractor of the first meeting house)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival farmhouses, with one Italianate house and a Colonial Revival house","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely well preserved and little touched by commercial development; the Green and Congregational Church are maintained by the New Marlborough Village Association, and the church is still used in summer.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.69369-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/7941/63794134/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82001896.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001896/0603752f0e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001896/0603752f0e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Old_Inn_on_the_Green,_New_Marlborough_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:The_Old_Inn_on_the_Green,_New_Marlborough_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794134","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Marlborough_Village","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715766"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/new-marlborough-village-82001896/"}