{"nrhp_refnum":"84002117","name":"Field, Albert, Tack Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19 Spring St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Taunton","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.89928909500003,"lon":-71.09092720799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Italianate former tack factory office building at 19 Spring St., Taunton, Massachusetts, built in 1868 for Albert Field on a Mill River site used for industry since the early 18th century.","why_significant":"The building is described as an unusually high-style industrial structure and an outstanding local example of Italianate industrial architecture. It housed one of Taunton's most successful 19th-century iron-related manufacturing enterprises. The form states it meets criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built in 1868 at 19 Spring Street in Taunton, this common-bond brick building with brownstone trim served as the office of Albert Field's tack works. Its Italianate styling is unusually elaborate for an industrial building, and a series of extensive brick ells extends from it. The site on the Mill River had been used for industry since the early 18th century, including wool carding, dyeing and snuff production. Field, a native of Sharon, began making tacks in the 1820s in two leased rooms, bought the mill by 1850, and eventually offered about 2,200 varieties of nail products, exhibiting them worldwide. The company later added a second factory across the street and a third in Fairhaven. It was absorbed by the Atlas Tack Company in 1896 and closed in 1902. The building later housed a Pentecostal church, contractors' offices and other tenants. It was listed for its architecture and its link to Taunton's iron industries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is given as offices and sporting goods manufacturing; earlier uses included a Pentecostal church (1930s) and contractor's offices (1940s-70s). Described as unaltered and not moved.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.522545-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/53/7894/63789453/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002117.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002117/01da726650-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002117/01da726650-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Field_Tack_Company.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Field_Tack_Company.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789453","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Field_Tack_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4710193"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/field-albert-tack-company-84002117/"}