{"nrhp_refnum":"84003859","name":"Hopewell School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Monroe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Taunton","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.91994707400005,"lon":-71.09401390899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick school building on Monroe Street in the Whittenton area of Taunton, Massachusetts, built in 1914 and designed by the Boston firm Kilham & Hopkins.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a good example of Renaissance Revival design and an important community landmark in Whittenton. It was built with the most highly developed fireproof construction methods known at the time. It is described as Taunton's best preserved example of early 20th century public school architecture reflecting the educational reform trends of the period.","narrative":"Hopewell School is a three-story brick school on Monroe Street in Taunton's Whittenton area, completed in 1914 to designs by the Boston firm Kilham & Hopkins, with Richardson & Hale as engineers. It was named to commemorate an earlier Hopewell School from the 1880s that stood around the corner on Bay Street. The building has projecting end bays and a slightly projecting central pavilion holding the main entrance, framed by a grey terra cotta surround with Renaissance details. Windows are trimmed in limestone, those on the second story with keystoned lintels, and the walls end in a limestone cornice with a brick parapet. Local brickyards supplied the brick, and the decorative work used grey terra cotta and marble. Builders applied the most advanced fireproof construction of the day. It is valued as a good example of Renaissance Revival design, a neighborhood landmark, and Taunton's best preserved early twentieth-century public school, reflecting educational reform ideas of its time.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Kilham & Hopkins (architects); Richardson & Hale (engineers)","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is school; owned by the City of Taunton. Windows were altered around 1980.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.707913-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7894/63789491/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84003859.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003859/f90735554a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003859/f90735554a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopewell_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopewell_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789491","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopewell_School_(Taunton,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715555"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/hopewell-school-84003859/"}