{"nrhp_refnum":"84002381","name":"House at 113-115 Center Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"113--115 Center St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Methuen","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.720157792000066,"lon":-71.17985463799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Italianate double house at 113-115 Center Street in the Arlington Mills area of Methuen, Massachusetts, built around 1880 by an unknown architect. It is clapboard-sided and still used as a private residence.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the best preserved examples of early Arlington District housing and a surviving two-family, side-by-side house type built after the Civil War. Its development is tied to the expansion of the Arlington mills. It is described as having integrity of location, setting, design and workmanship.","narrative":"Built around 1880, this two-story double house at 113-115 Center Street sits in a dense residential part of Methuen known as the Arlington Mills area. It has a hip roof, a shallow cross gable on the front facade, a central entry and two projecting tripartite bays. Stock trim adds detail, including picket friezes at the bracketed porch and bays and a pedimented central window on the second story. The clapboard building has no recorded alterations or outbuildings. The house is considered one of the best preserved examples of early Arlington District housing and represents the side-by-side two-family type found in about six places in the district. Growth of the nearby Arlington mills, which employed thousands of Lawrence and Methuen workers but owned little housing, drove development of the area. It was listed for its architecture and its association with that mill-related growth, and because it keeps its original location, setting, design and workmanship.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is a private residence (double house); no alterations are recorded.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.112419-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7900/63790098/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002381.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002381/9e7ab2d0f8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002381/9e7ab2d0f8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"EraserGirl","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_113-115_Center_Street.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">EraserGirl</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_113-115_Center_Street.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790098","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_113%E2%80%93115_Center_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5913876"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/house-at-113-115-center-street-84002381/"}