{"nrhp_refnum":"85003376","name":"Church Street-Cady Hill Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Church Street Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Main and Holbrook Sts., Wall and Meadow Sts., Elmwood Ave., and Perry, South, and Ashland Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Adams","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.69654750000004,"lon":-73.10588491895857,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in North Adams, Massachusetts, formed by adding the Cady Hill area and one block each of Quincy and Chestnut Streets to the earlier Church Street Historic District. The additions hold 179 properties, 165 of them contributing, mostly wood houses built between 1860 and 1900.","why_significant":"The district shows North Adams' growing prosperity in the later 19th century, when mill owners, merchants and managers built houses on and around Church Street. Its buildings keep a coherent late Victorian character and span a wide range of popular architectural styles. The form says it meets Criteria A, B and C.","narrative":"This district in North Adams, Massachusetts, extends the earlier Church Street Historic District to take in Cady Hill, east of Church Street, and a block each of Quincy and Chestnut Streets to the west. It holds 179 properties, 165 of them contributing, almost all residential and mostly wood-framed houses from 1860 to 1900. Mill owners, merchants, professionals and mill managers built here as the city became the commercial and industrial center of the northern Berkshires. The houses are somewhat more modest than the mansions of Church Street but are well detailed. Styles include Greek Revival cottages, Italianate and Second Empire houses, many Queen Anne and Stick Style homes, and a Gothic Revival cottage. The district also has the city's only pure Shingle Style house and its best Arts and Crafts house. Most buildings were probably built by local contractors rather than architects. The district was listed for its architectural coherence and for its link to the people behind the city's industrial prosperity.","period_of_significance":"1840-1920","architect_builder":"Frank Davis and Brothers (Vadner House, 1874); Edwin T. Barlow (Mary Cady House, 1914); most other houses by local contractor-builders, some from mail-order plan firms","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Stick Style, Italianate, Second Empire) with Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Shingle, Colonial and Georgian Revival, and Arts and Crafts examples","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Houses are described as generally well maintained, and many owners on Cady Hill have been restoring them. Quincy and Chestnut Street houses that suffered neglect are seeing renewed restoration interest.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.089662-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7892/63789279/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003376.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003376/3535cc6ec4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003376/3535cc6ec4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Joe Mabel from Seattle, US","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Adams,_MA_-_Inn_on_East_Main_Street_01_(9375725626).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Mabel from Seattle, US</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Adams,_MA_-_Inn_on_East_Main_Street_01_(9375725626).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789279","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street%E2%80%93Cady_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5116691"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/church-street-cady-hill-historic-district-boundary-increase-85003376/"}