{"nrhp_refnum":"83000699","name":"Osborn Street School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"160 Osborn St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fall River","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.69257950400004,"lon":-71.16694351699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick school with a slate roof at 160 Osborn Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, built in 1893 (per datestone) to designs by Boston architect Frank Irving Cooper for the City of Fall River.","why_significant":"The school is notable as the work of Frank Irving Cooper, a recognized New England school architect, and as a distinctive example of late 19th century brick eight-room grammar schools whose sturdy construction and detailing rise above simple functionalism. It represents the 1890s school building campaign in Fall River. The form states it meets Criteria A and C.","narrative":"Osborn Street School is a two-story red and gray brick building with a slate roof, set on a granite foundation at 160 Osborn Street in Fall River. A datestone gives its construction as 1893. It replaced an earlier schoolhouse on the same site. Round-arched windows with voussoirs and an arched recessed entrance bring Romanesque detail to its blocky mass, and a tree-shaded lawn and iron perimeter fence add to its appearance. The city built nine new schools in the 1890s to serve a growing population, and Boston architect Frank Irving Cooper, a Taunton native, designed the very similar Coughlin and Osborn Schools. Cooper, who studied under Henry Hobson Richardson, designed some 200 schools across New England. The school was recognized for its design quality, for representing the late 19th century eight-room grammar school type, and for being the work of a respected school architect, meeting Criteria A and C.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frank Irving Cooper","architectural_style":"Romanesque","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as present use: school, owned by the City of Fall River, at the time of the survey form (1981).","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.886028-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/31/7894/63789431/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000699.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000699/b8375acc94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000699/b8375acc94-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osborn_School_Fall_River.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Osborn_School_Fall_River.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789431","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborn_Street_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7105765"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/osborn-street-school-83000699/"}