{"nrhp_refnum":"85002380","name":"Washington Street Historic District","other_names":["Boston Road"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Washington, Main, Holton and Sewall Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Peabody","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.52248000000006,"lon":-70.92414311824042,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 12.83-acre nineteenth-century residential historic district southeast of Peabody Square in Peabody, Massachusetts, centered on Washington Street and including parts of Main, Holton and Sewall Streets. It contains forty-eight properties, two of them non-contributing.","why_significant":"The district is tied to early leather and carriage manufacturing and to the commercial, social and early industrial growth of Peabody. It was home to many prominent manufacturers and community leaders. Their houses show nearly all the architectural styles popular in the nineteenth century within a cohesive residential neighborhood.","narrative":"Washington Street Historic District is a 12.83-acre residential neighborhood just southeast of Peabody Square in Peabody, Massachusetts. It includes Washington Street and parts of Main, Holton and Sewall Streets, and holds forty-eight properties, only two of them modern intrusions. Most are frame houses of two to three stories, built by local manufacturers and merchants during the nineteenth century. The oldest is the Joseph Osborn House, built about 1795 by a potter. Greek Revival is the most common style, alongside Federal, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival examples. The district also has two churches, the brick Wallis School of 1869 and an early carriage factory. Its development followed the 1750 Boston Road, and the Bell Tavern once stood at the corner of Main and Washington Streets. The area is significant for its links to the leather and carriage industries, its prominent residents, and its largely intact architecture and setting.","period_of_significance":"1797-1914","architect_builder":"multiple","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Mostly in good condition; most houses remain single-family homes, some subdivided into apartments or with ground-floor commercial or office use. The carriage factory was converted in the 1940s to an automobile salesroom.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.825611-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7947/63794766/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85002380.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002380/7afda7c003-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002380/7afda7c003-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PeabodyMA_WashingtonStreetHD.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PeabodyMA_WashingtonStreetHD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794766","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Street_Historic_District_(Peabody,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7972322"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/washington-street-historic-district-85002380/"}