{"nrhp_refnum":"84002890","name":"Moreland Street Historic District","other_names":["Mount Pleasant","See Also:Sarah J. Baker School"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Kearsarge, Blue Hill Aves., Warren, Waverly, and Winthrop Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.32369550000007,"lon":-71.07913254164785,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 63-acre primarily residential historic district in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, roughly bounded by Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue. It holds 280 primary buildings dating from about 1840 to 1930, along a curving street pattern completed around 1890.","why_significant":"The district is described as a catalog of residential building types and architectural styles popular between 1840 and the 1920s, held together by a consistent scale of two to four stories. It keeps a high degree of integrity compared with other parts of Roxbury that suffered from neglect, fires and urban renewal. It includes Gothic Revival cottages, Italianate and Second Empire mansions, and Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses and three-deckers, some by known architects such as Nathaniel J. Bradlee.","narrative":"Moreland Street Historic District, also known as Mount Pleasant, is a 63-acre residential neighborhood in Roxbury, Boston, set between Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue. Its gently curving streets, finished around 1890, are lined with 280 primary buildings built between 1840 and 1930, of which 270 contribute to the district's character. Wood-frame houses make up about 80 percent of the total. The area displays a broad range of styles: Gothic Revival cottages from the 1840s on Montrose Street, Italianate mansions on Moreland, Perrin and Winthrop Streets, Second Empire houses with slate mansard roofs, and Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses, row blocks and three-deckers. Architects included Nathaniel J. Bradlee and J.H. Besarick. Consistent building heights, deed-restricted setbacks and mature trees keep the streetscapes coherent. Compared with other parts of Roxbury, the neighborhood lost relatively few buildings to neglect, fire and urban renewal, which is central to why it was listed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Nathaniel J. Bradlee, J.H. Besarick, John Roulstone Hall, Richards and Park, and various speculative builders","architectural_style":"Wide range of 19th and early 20th century residential styles, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are in use and in good condition, with few abandoned or seriously deteriorated; many are owner occupied. The former home for elderly women is vacant.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.72819-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/74/7966/63796674/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002890.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002890/73338c4ae0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002890/73338c4ae0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moreland_Street_and_Blue_Hill_Avenue,_Roxbury_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:Moreland_Street_and_Blue_Hill_Avenue,_Roxbury_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796674","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moreland_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6911300"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/moreland-street-historic-district-84002890/"}