{"nrhp_refnum":"85003414","name":"Crowley House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"365 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Adams","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.69975907300005,"lon":-73.12744103299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A house at 365 West Main Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, built around 1830 as a residence and now used as apartments. It sits on the western side of the city along the old main east-west highway, with 19th-century mills and the Hoosac River behind it.","why_significant":"The house is considered a locally rare surviving example of transitional Federal and Greek Revival design. It has a Greek Revival plan and details, but its lunette and delicate moldings suggest a builder trained in the Federal style. It is also seen as one of the oldest surviving buildings of architectural distinction in the city.","narrative":"Built around 1830 at 365 West Main Street in North Adams, this house is a rare local example of the transition from Federal to Greek Revival architecture. Its plan is typical of Greek Revival work, with a central section whose full pediment faces the street and two flanking wings that are not fully symmetrical. All three entrances have Doric pilasters supporting an entablature, and Greek fret moldings surround the main door. A lunette in the gable and thin, delicate moldings point to a carpenter more used to the older Federal style. The first known owner, Monroe Temple, was an architect-builder who lost the property through debt in the 1860s. Later owners included John A. Doane, Edmund Rice, Henry A. Tower and David Crowley, a mill cloth finisher, who owned it from 1884 into the early twentieth century. The house appears to have long been a rental. Despite its aluminum siding, it remains an unusual early nineteenth-century survivor in the city.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival/Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Present use is apartments; aluminum siding was added over the original clapboard.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.132196-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/36/7892/63789236/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003414.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003414/d46bb520fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003414/d46bb520fd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowley_House_365_West_Main_North_Adams.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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:Crowley_House_365_West_Main_North_Adams.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789236","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowley_House_(North_Adams,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5189271"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/crowley-house-85003414/"}