{"nrhp_refnum":"83000697","name":"Notre Dame School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"34 St. Joseph's St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fall River","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.691315607000035,"lon":-71.13343698899996,"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":"Notre Dame School is a three-story brick parochial school with a basement at 34 St. Joseph's Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was built in 1899 to a design by architect Louis G. Destremps.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is a distinctive example of Colonial Revival style, notable for its brick construction and fine workmanship. It also reflects the growth of the Notre Dame parish school system, which began in 1876. It is listed under Criterion C.","narrative":"Notre Dame School at 34 St. Joseph's Street in Fall River is a large three-story brick parochial school with a basement, built in 1899 in the Colonial Revival style. Its design came from Louis G. Destremps, a parish member and local architect who specialized in church work and had already designed St. Joseph's Orphanage and Notre Dame Church. The building has a full entablature with small brackets and dentils, granite sills and lintels, end wings that project forward, and a recessed central entrance sheltered by fluted Doric columns. The school grew from a one-room classroom organized in a private home in 1876. A year later, members of the religious order of Jesus and Mary arrived from Canada to expand the teaching. Classes then met in the parish's first wooden church until larger quarters were needed. The new school opened in the fall of 1900 and was then called Notre Dame College. It is valued as a distinctive example of its style, with fine brick workmanship, and it still serves as a school.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Louis G. Destremps","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed as the present use being a school; owned by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Fall River.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.534158-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/95/7894/63789495/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000697.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000697/a7182a1db4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000697/a7182a1db4-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_School_FR.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_School_FR.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789495","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_School_(Fall_River,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7063472"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/notre-dame-school-83000697/"}