{"nrhp_refnum":"85003623","name":"Monument Square-Eagle Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Mounument Square--Eagle Street Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Holden, Center, and Union Sts., East Middle School, Summer, and Main Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Adams","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.69869650000004,"lon":-73.11037485584566,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-08-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Monument Square-Eagle Street Historic District in North Adams, Massachusetts, covering commercial buildings on the north side of Main Street plus churches, a post office and a school on Summer, Eagle and North Church Streets, dating from 1850 to 1938.","why_significant":"The extension is argued to reflect North Adams at its peak of prosperity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mills thrived and the population reached 24,200 in 1900. Its well-preserved, finely detailed commercial and church buildings represent a range of revival styles and the work of several notable architects. It also includes the Mohawk Theater (1938), the only commercial building erected downtown during the Depression.","narrative":"This boundary increase extends the Monument Square-Eagle Street district in North Adams, covering the historic central business district. It adds a row of commercial buildings on the north side of Main Street, along with churches, a post office and a school on Summer, Eagle and North Church Streets. Highlights include the Italianate First Blackinton Block (1873), the Romanesque Revival Hoosac Savings Bank, the Dowlin and Kimball buildings, and the Art Deco Mohawk Theater of 1938, built during the Depression and still a working movie theater. Churches include the Gothic Revival St. John's Episcopal and St. Francis Roman Catholic, and the Georgian Revival Post Office dates from 1911. The buildings were largely erected by local developers and merchants when the city's mills were thriving and its population peaked near 24,200 in 1900. The district is described as retaining its integrity and as meeting criteria A and C. Its boundaries exclude areas on the south side of Main Street altered by urban renewal. All buildings remain in their original uses.","period_of_significance":"1850-1938","architect_builder":"Marcus Fayette Cummings (First Blackinton Block, 1873); H. Neil Wilson (Hoosac Savings Bank); Edwin Thayer Barlow (Dowlin Block); Stephen Carpenter Earle (St. John's Episcopal Church, 1886); James Knox Taylor (U.S. Post Office, 1911); Eugene and George Gardner (Drury High School, 1915)","architectural_style":"Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Gothic Revival, Georgian Revival, Renaissance Revival and Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"General condition is stated as good; all buildings in the extensions are still used for their original purposes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.566965-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/51/7892/63789251/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/85003623.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003623/4c4b683507-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003623/4c4b683507-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Street_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:Main_Street_North_Adams.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789251","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Square%E2%80%93Eagle_Street_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6906845"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/monument-square-eagle-street-historic-district-boundary-increase-85003623/"}