{"nrhp_refnum":"83000586","name":"Tapley Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"206 Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynn","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.46262005500006,"lon":-70.94430207899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-03-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story red brick industrial building at 206 Broad Street, Lynn, Massachusetts, built in 1890 in the Romanesque Revival style and designed by Wheeler and Northend. It stands at the corner of Broad and Carroll Streets.","why_significant":"The building is argued to meet criteria A and C as one of a handful of surviving downtown buildings tied to Lynn's leather industry. It retains integrity of location, design, materials and workmanship. Its intact Romanesque Revival design is typical of the factories built in the Broad Street area after the 1889 fire.","narrative":"Rising five stories at the corner of Broad and Carroll Streets in Lynn, this red brick factory was built in 1890 for Philip Tapley's leather manufacturing business and designed by Wheeler and Northend. Sandstone trim, cast iron supports at street level, Ionic pilasters and an arcade of round-arched windows on the top floor give it a Romanesque Revival character. It replaced an 1858 Tapley factory that burned in 1889, shortly before the great fire of November 1889 swept through downtown Lynn and destroyed 338 structures. Plans called for offices and showrooms on the ground floor and manufacturing space above, with two elevators and two fireproof stairwells. Tapley had been an early leader in morocco leather and the first Lynn manufacturer to use steam power. The building survives as one of a few downtown structures representing the city's leading industry and the brick rebuilding that followed the fire. It also escaped the 1981 fire that devastated the surrounding Broad Street district.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Wheeler and Northend","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied; the form describes it as one of the few unaltered industrial buildings to survive the 1981 fire, with some window openings boarded over.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.464988-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7949/63794904/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000586.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000586/1c0ccc7863-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000586/1c0ccc7863-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LynnMA_TapleyBuilding.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LynnMA_TapleyBuilding.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794904","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapley_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7684706"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/tapley-building-83000586/"}