{"nrhp_refnum":"83000647","name":"Chace, A. B., Rowhouses","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"655-685 Middle St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fall River","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.70250074300003,"lon":-71.16619522099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of five two-story brick and shingle rowhouses with mansard roofs at 655-685 Middle Street, Fall River, Massachusetts, built about 1877 for Arnold B. Chace as apartments beside Kennedy Park.","why_significant":"The form argues this is the only Queen Anne rowhouse of its kind in Fall River and an imaginative variation on the city's common multi-family tenement. Its original porches and detailing survive virtually intact, and the row was among the first residences built around Kennedy Park. It meets criterion C for its intact quality, workmanship, and unusual style and building type.","narrative":"Five attached two-story rowhouses line Middle Street in Fall River, facing Kennedy Park. Built around 1877 for Arnold B. Chace, they were designed as apartments and still serve that purpose. The walls are red brick with shingle, topped by mansard roofs with bracketed dormers; the central dormer ends in a cone-shaped top, and two-story columned porches front the row. Three porch support types, paired Doric columns, paired square pilasters and wide shingled posts, repeat in an ABCBA rhythm across the five units. The row is described as the only Queen Anne rowhouse of its kind in the city and a lively variation on the multi-family tenement, Fall River's most common building type. Porch design shows Shingle Style and Colonial Revival influence. The porches and other original detailing survive virtually intact. Among the first residences built around the park, the row benefits from its setting. Its intact condition, workmanship and unusual style and type supported its listing for architectural significance. Chace's mother was the Rhode Island reformer Elizabeth Buffum Chace.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne rowhouses, with Shingle Style/Colonial Revival influence in the porch design","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is apartments; the original use was also apartments. Original porches and detailing are described as surviving virtually intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.367015-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7893/63789389/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000647.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000647/2010fc42d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000647/2010fc42d6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Row_Houses_FR.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Row_Houses_FR.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789389","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Chace_Rowhouses","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4647549"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/chace-a-b-rowhouses-83000647/"}