{"nrhp_refnum":"83000756","name":"Milton-Bradley Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Park, Cross, and Willow Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Springfield","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.10044217300003,"lon":-72.58310147699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of late 19th and early 20th century brick industrial buildings at Park, Cross and Willow Streets on the edge of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, built in stages around 1880, 1888, 1905 and 1912. The original owner was George W. Tapley, and the architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The complex is tied to Springfield's industrial growth and to the Milton Bradley Company, which became a nationally known maker of games and educational materials. It is also an intact, handsome group of industrial structures built to house a rapidly expanding firm, with carefully detailed brick trim.","narrative":"This group of brick industrial buildings at Park, Cross and Willow Streets on the edge of downtown Springfield housed the Milton Bradley Company as it grew from a small lithography shop into a national maker of games and educational materials. The firm was founded in 1860 and moved to Willow Street in 1882 into a building owned by George Tapley. It was incorporated in 1884. The plant expanded through the early 20th century until it filled an entire city block, with construction dates of about 1880, 1888, 1905 and 1912. The buildings are large, simplified and utilitarian, with coursing, brick corbels and cornices that give the long facades a strong rhythm. The company left for East Longmeadow in the 1960s, and the complex was converted to apartments in 1979. It is considered a rare surviving composite grouping of late 19th century industrial buildings in the survey area, and it retains much of its exterior integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Panel Brick","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to housing in 1979 through adaptive reuse; the present use is residential. The company moved to East Longmeadow in the 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.505494-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7903/63790353/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000756.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000756/c9f8887aa5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000756/c9f8887aa5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courtyard,_Milton_Bradley_Company_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courtyard,_Milton_Bradley_Company_Building,_Springfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790353","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Bradley_Company_(building)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715711"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/milton-bradley-company-83000756/"}