{"nrhp_refnum":"86001246","name":"Church Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Church St. between Park Ave. and Highland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ware","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.26674600000007,"lon":-72.22982741994281,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district along Church Street in Ware Village, Massachusetts, between Park Avenue and Highland Street. It includes 73 inventoried properties, most of them frame houses, plus a church, a school and Greenville Park.","why_significant":"The visible text gives only the description and boundary justification, with no Section 8 statement. It describes a cohesive, tree-lined streetscape with Greek Revival houses on lower Church Street and Queen Anne houses on the upper blocks. It also notes an unusual concentration of early town-lot barns and carriage houses, and 70 of the 73 properties contribute to the district.","narrative":"Church Street in Ware Village forms the spine of a residential district of 73 inventoried properties between Park Avenue and Highland Street, with a few adjacent cross-street lots and the open land of Greenville Park. Nearly all buildings are houses, and the only exceptions are a church, a school and the park. Almost all are wood-frame; the Larmarine double-house and the former Ware High School are the exceptions. The lower blocks near Main Street developed first, mostly in the 1840s to 1860s, and show strong Greek Revival character. The upper blocks were built up from the late 1880s through the early 1900s and are dominated by the Queen Anne style. Many town-lot barns and carriage houses survive, several of them elaborated in Queen Anne manner. The tree-lined street has an almost boulevard quality. The district includes workers' tenements, merchants' and physicians' homes, and the 1925 Colonial Revival East Congregational Church. Seventy of the properties contribute to the district's character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Frohman, Robb & Little of Boston (East Congregational Church, 1925); Isaac Damon of Northampton (earlier 1826 church); P.H. Provencal (contractor, Sibley house)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (lower Church Street) and Queen Anne (upper Church Street), with Colonial Revival, Stick style and Craftsman-Bungalow examples","criteria":[],"status_note":"The classification marks the district as occupied. Uses include private residences, a church, a school, a park, and bed-and-breakfast rental.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.774396-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/7954/63795409/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001246.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001246/d2b3bd9585-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001246/d2b3bd9585-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WareMA_ChurchStreetHD_03.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:WareMA_ChurchStreetHD_03.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795409","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_Historic_District_(Ware,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5116708"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/church-street-historic-district-86001246/"}