{"nrhp_refnum":"83003967","name":"Edgartown Village Historic District","other_names":["Downtown Edgartown"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Water St. (North and South) and Pease's Point Way(North and South)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edgartown","county":"Dukes County","state":"MA","lat":41.390432274000034,"lon":-70.5146890526463,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Entertainment/Recreation","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Maritime History"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 150 acres and roughly 500 buildings on the west side of Edgartown Harbor in Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Most buildings are wood-frame houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The surviving text emphasizes a village whose street grid preserves the 1650s division of water lots among the island's settlers. It also retains a dense, largely intact stock of timber-frame buildings from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The statement of significance and criteria are not included in the excerpt provided.","narrative":"Edgartown Village is a compact harbor-side district of about 150 acres on the west shore of Edgartown Harbor, on Martha's Vineyard. Roughly 500 buildings stand closely together on small lots, many bordered by white picket fences along narrow, tree-lined streets. Most are wood-frame houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries, built of post-and-beam construction and finished in white-painted clapboard or shingle; only five are brick. The street pattern is a modified grid that curves with the shoreline and traces back to the 1650s, when long rectangular water lots were laid out for the island's settlers. East-west streets such as Main, Cooke, High and Winter follow the side lines of those early lots, while Water Street and Pease's Point Way began as routes to planting fields and the waterfront. Inventory sheets record Federalist, Greek Revival, mid-Victorian and Arts & Crafts buildings. About 77 later buildings are classed as intrusions.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frederick Baylis, architect of the former Baptist Church (1839), is named in the data sheets","architectural_style":"Mainly Federalist, Greek Revival and central-chimney timber-frame houses, with mid-Victorian, Queen Anne and Arts & Crafts examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district is described as in excellent condition and unaltered, with about 77 intrusions built after 1933. It remains in mixed residential, commercial, educational, religious, museum and government use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.344379-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7945/63794590/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83003967.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003967/8e28ddb897-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003967/8e28ddb897-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Whaling_Church,_Edgartown_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Whaling_Church,_Edgartown_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794590","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgartown_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5337611"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/dukes-county/edgartown-village-historic-district-83003967/"}