{"nrhp_refnum":"84000105","name":"Weeks Junior High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"7 Hereward Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.32293765800006,"lon":-71.19732748560412,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story Tudor Revival junior high school at 7 Hereward Road in Newton, Massachusetts, built in 1930 and designed by the Boston firm Henry and Richmond. It sits within a planned subdivision of Tudor Revival houses.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is Newton's finest Tudor Revival school and the architectural centerpiece of a neighborhood planned around it in 1929-1930. It also illustrates 1920s-30s suburban community planning with a uniform medieval English theme. It is cited under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Weeks Junior High School is a Tudor Revival school at 7 Hereward Road in Newton, completed in 1930 and designed by the Boston architects Henry and Richmond. The E-shaped, three-story building has steel framing, brick walls and cast stone trim, with a four-story entrance tower, buttresses, oriel windows and ogival-arched doorways on its main facades. It was planned in 1929 as the centerpiece of a neighborhood on former farmland south of Newton Center, where houses built between 1929 and 1938 echoed its style and streets were named after Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe. The nomination presents the school as Newton's finest Tudor Revival example and as a notable case of 1920s and 1930s suburban planning with a controlled architectural theme. Cast stone allowed detailed ornament that would have been costly in limestone. The school was named for John Wingate Weeks, a former Newton mayor and U.S. Senator. Conversion to apartments required demolishing the rear wing, while the principal facades were retained.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1930)","architect_builder":"Henry and Richmond, architects","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival (Neo-Gothic/Tudor Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as unoccupied and altered; being converted into mixed subsidized and market-rate apartments, with the rear northeast wing demolished and a new entry planned.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.756049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7958/63795842/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84000105.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000105/21b1797b7f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000105/21b1797b7f-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"HABS, photographer not stated, 6. VIEW NORTHEAST, FRONT (SOUTHWEST) ELEVATION HABS MASS,9-NEWTC,1-6","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HABS-WeeksJrHighSchNewtonMA-081040pr.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">HABS, photographer not stated, 6. VIEW NORTHEAST, FRONT (SOUTHWEST) ELEVATION HABS MASS,9-NEWTC,1-6</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HABS-WeeksJrHighSchNewtonMA-081040pr.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795842","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeks_Junior_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7979535"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/weeks-junior-high-school-84000105/"}