{"nrhp_refnum":"88000513","name":"Hadley Center Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Hadley Center","See Also:Hadley Center Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Town Farm Ln., Spruce Hill Rd. and Fort River, and the Connecticut River","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hadley","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.34133200000005,"lon":-72.58876367319996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-01-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Prehistoric","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic district in the town center of Hadley, Massachusetts, along West, Middle, East and Russell Streets and Bay Road. It extends the 1977 listing with 398 contributing buildings, 2 sites, 2 structures and 9 objects, covering houses, farms, shops, schools and churches dating from about 1700 to 1935.","why_significant":"The district shows the full sequence of major New England village architectural styles from 1700 to 1935. It also records Hadley's growth from a 17th-century farming settlement into a market gardening center between the World Wars. Each street developed its own character according to the period and type of housing.","narrative":"Hadley's historic center covers a broad area around the Town Common, including West, Middle, East and Russell Streets and Bay Road. It adds hundreds of buildings to an earlier listing that focused on civic structures facing the common. The district traces the town from its mid-17th-century settlement to its years as a market gardening center. West Street holds side-gabled Georgian and Federal farmhouses, among them the 1713 Samuel Porter House, the town's oldest surviving residence. Middle Street has Greek Revival houses of merchants and entrepreneurs, while lower Russell Street has modest Queen Anne houses built along a streetcar line. East Street has Colonial Revival and Craftsman houses built for immigrant farmers. Early 20th-century civic buildings include the 1894 Russell School, the 1902 Goodwin Memorial Library and Hooker School. The Hadley Farm Museum occupies an 1782 barn moved to its site in 1930. Together these resources show a full range of New England village architecture from 1700 to 1935.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles E. Parks of Boston (Russell School); Guy Kirham of Springfield (Goodwin Memorial Library); Toomey and Shea (St. John the Apostle Church); Karl Putnam of Northampton (Hooker School); Charles W. Dingham of Palmer (1950 addition)","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"A 1993 note says infill construction since 1988 has not diminished the district's integrity. The Hadley Farm Museum is open to the public, and the district's buildings remain in mixed residential, civic, commercial and religious use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.772769-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7954/63795411/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/88000513.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000513/b2010bbe77-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000513/b2010bbe77-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Congregational_Church,_Hadley_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Congregational_Church,_Hadley_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"77000185","name":"Hadley Center Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/hadley-center-historic-district-77000185/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795411","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5637963"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/hadley-center-historic-district-boundary-increase-88000513/"}