{"nrhp_refnum":"89000004","name":"Mount Pleasant Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Forest St. and Mount Pleasant Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.32646550000007,"lon":-71.07823772580377,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-02-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, with 99 contributing buildings built between 1833 and 1925, including houses, double houses, row houses, apartment blocks and triple deckers.","why_significant":"The district is notable for its concentration of mid-19th-century house types, especially vernacular Greek Revival houses, along with Gothic Revival, Italianate and Second Empire examples. It also records the shift from a suburban area of wood-frame houses to dense apartment hotels, flats and row houses in the late 19th century, after horse railroads arrived and Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868.","narrative":"Mount Pleasant is a residential district in the Roxbury section of Boston, containing 99 contributing buildings erected between 1833 and 1925. The earliest buildings are wood-frame, detached houses set back from tree-lined streets, many of them vernacular Greek Revival double houses and side-hall cottages. Gothic Revival cottages, Italianate houses and Second Empire townhouses followed in the 1850s and 1860s. After horse railroads extended along Dudley Street and Boston annexed Roxbury in 1868, development became denser. Brick row houses, such as the ten-unit row at 80-98 Mt. Pleasant Ave., and apartment hotels like Hotel Vine and Hotel Mount Pleasant brought the idea of horizontal apartments, or French flats, to the area. Yellow-brick apartment blocks of the 1890s and a brick mansion built for Thomas Ray in 1886 add further variety. The district is listed for its concentration of mid-nineteenth-century house types and for showing how a suburban neighborhood grew into a dense urban one. Most buildings are well maintained, though some are vacant or in poor condition.","period_of_significance":"1833-1925","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Multiple styles, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and Shingle Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are generally well maintained, with alterations mainly in later siding. A small number are unoccupied, three row houses at 64-72 Forest St. are vacant and boarded, and 114-116 Mt. Pleasant Ave. is in poor condition and uninhabited. Twenty vacant lots lie within the district.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:00.323735-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7968/63796857/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000004.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000004/1fa95ddc07-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000004/1fa95ddc07-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Pleasant_Avenue,_Roxbury_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Pleasant_Avenue,_Roxbury_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796857","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant_Historic_District_(Boston,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6922920"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/mount-pleasant-historic-district-89000004/"}