{"nrhp_refnum":"87000371","name":"Sacred Heart School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"90 Linden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fall River","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.70309913600005,"lon":-71.14872911499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Sacred Heart School is a two-story (three on the rear) red-brick grammar school at 90 Linden Street, Fall River, Massachusetts, built in 1931 for the Sacred Heart Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River. It was designed by the Boston firm Maginnis and Walsh.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a well-designed institutional building combining Georgian Revival and Moderne elements, and the work of the noted architectural firm Maginnis and Walsh. It is also one of only two parochial schools built in Fall River during the Depression-era 1930s, when the city was in financial crisis. It retains integrity and is tied to the city's educational system and large Roman Catholic population.","narrative":"Sacred Heart School, at 90 Linden Street in Fall River, is a brick grammar school completed in 1931 for the Sacred Heart Church parish. Boston architects Maginnis and Walsh, known for work for the Roman Catholic Church, designed it in a restrained Georgian Revival style with Moderne touches. The building has granite foundations, concrete quoins and sills, Palladian and round-headed windows, and a large auditorium with a molded plaster ceiling and proscenium arch. It opened in 1932 at a cost of $225,000 and served 770 students at first, mostly children of Irish families in the parish. It was built during the Depression, when Fall River's mills were failing and the city went into receivership; no new public schools followed until the 1940s. Enrollment fell to 154 and the school closed in 1976. Its design quality, intact condition, and link to the city's Catholic education and the architects' work supported its listing for architecture and local history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Maginnis and Walsh (architects); Walsh Brothers, Cambridge, MA, named on the building permit","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival (with Moderne elements)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and in good condition at the time of recording. The school closed in 1976, and the city used part of it for public classrooms from 1977 to 1984.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.79812-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7896/63789685/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/87000371.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000371/bb5245d03d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000371/bb5245d03d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Heart_School_FR.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Heart_School_FR.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789685","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Heart_School_(Fall_River,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7397260"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/sacred-heart-school-87000371/"}