{"nrhp_refnum":"83004094","name":"Bradford-Union Street Historic District","other_names":["Bradford Area"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bradford, Union, Emerald, Water Cure, and Freedom Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Plymouth","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":41.95506850000007,"lon":-70.66075667545911,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A waterfront residential and former maritime district of about thirty-nine buildings on roughly six to seven acres in Plymouth, Massachusetts, running down a hillside from Sandwich Street toward Plymouth Harbor between Bradford and Water Streets.","why_significant":"The district grew from the mid-18th to late 19th century as a neighborhood of workers in supporting trades for Plymouth's maritime industry, including fish drying, boatbuilding and an iron foundry. It keeps cohesive 19th-century cottages, sea captains' houses and multi-family dwellings, including Gothic Revival cottages from a 1840s speculative development. It was found to meet criteria A and C.","narrative":"Sloping down toward Plymouth Harbor, this neighborhood of about thirty-nine buildings was once home to the mariners and tradesmen who supported the town's maritime economy. Most buildings are modest 19th-century houses: Greek Revival dwellings built for sea captains, small Cape Cod cottages, and a group of compact Gothic Revival cottages with carved eave trim. Many of the cottages came from a late-1840s development by Ansel Harlow, in partnership with Captain Samuel Doten, and were sold largely to Irish immigrants. Cod fishing, flake yards, fish houses, boatbuilding and an iron foundry shaped the area, and the surviving brick portion of the foundry is now part of a marine company. Economic decline set in late in the century, and by the 1930s the waterfront was no longer an active commercial harbor. Later infill and a yacht club have replaced much of the industrial fabric, but the dense, cohesive 19th-century streetscape remains, which supported the district's listing for its history and architecture.","period_of_significance":"1700-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival, Gothic Revival cottages, Cape and Georgian-influenced buildings","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now primarily residential; most 19th-century industry and commerce along the waterfront has been lost to 20th-century construction, though the 19th-century character largely remains.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.837091-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7964/63796479/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83004094.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004094/5fb703700e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004094/5fb703700e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradford_Street,_Plymouth_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:Bradford_Street,_Plymouth_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796479","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford%E2%80%93Union_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4954561"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/bradford-union-street-historic-district-83004094/"}