{"nrhp_refnum":"83004096","name":"South Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly South St. from Main St. to Warren Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brockton","county":"Plymouth County","state":"MA","lat":42.063120000000055,"lon":-71.01727475555423,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-block residential historic district along South Street between Main Street and Warren Avenue in the Campello section of Brockton, Massachusetts, made up of twenty dwellings and the South Congregational Church, built from the mid 19th to early 20th century.","why_significant":"The district represents an important residential section of South Brockton as it developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its buildings show a wide range of period architectural styles, and many early owners were leaders in Brockton's shoe industry. The nomination finds that it keeps its integrity and meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"South Street in Brockton's Campello section holds a compact, cohesive block of twenty houses and the South Congregational Church, dating from the mid 19th to early 20th century. The buildings share similar setbacks, lot sizes, porches, bays and clapboard or shingle siding, yet they show many styles, including Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, Mission, Arts and Crafts and Colonial Revival. Notable examples include Brockton's only Mission style house at number 27, an Arts and Crafts house designed by J. Williams Beal at number 36, and the Romanesque church of 1854 by Towle and Foster. After a new road in 1886 reduced through traffic, the street became a desirable residential location. Many early residents were shoe industry owners and merchants, among them the Keith family, who built several houses and helped fund the church. Skilled craftsmen and foremen occupied more modest homes. A single modern ranch house is the only intrusion.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Multiple; named designers include W. T. Barlow (27 South St.), Harry Russell (50 South St.), J. Williams Beal (36 South St.), and Towle and Foster of Boston (South Congregational Church)","architectural_style":"Multiple styles: Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, Mission, Arts and Crafts, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Carpenter Gothic, and Romanesque (church)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely intact, in good condition, and occupied; the church and houses remain in use, with one intrusion, a two-family raised ranch at 58 South Street built after a 1979 fire destroyed the Methodist church there.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.289476-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7966/63796606/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83004096.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004096/da0054a74c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004096/da0054a74c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrocktonMA_SouthStreet_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrocktonMA_SouthStreet_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796606","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Street_Historic_District_(Brockton,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7568563"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/plymouth-county/south-street-historic-district-83004096/"}