{"nrhp_refnum":"89000556","name":"Hartwell, George H., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"105 Hamilton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.077681720000044,"lon":-72.03517026899993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick Italianate cottage at 105 Hamilton Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts, built circa 1855-1870 by Dr. George H. Hartwell. It is still a residence and sits behind commercial buildings.","why_significant":"The house is significant as an early, brick example of an Italianate cottage, a type uncommon in town. It is also tied to the mid-19th-century suburban estate development of Hamilton Street and to a local pharmacist whose family ran a Main Street drug store into the 1970s.","narrative":"This brick Italianate cottage at 105 Hamilton Street in Southbridge dates to about 1855-1870. It was built by Dr. George H. Hartwell, a pharmacist who ran a drug store in the Hartwell Block on Main Street and lived here as late as 1898. Hamilton Street opened in the early 1850s as a suburban estate district, and this was one of the earliest houses at the Centre Village end, set back behind a broad lawn. The house has a gabled facade with a side ell, a bracketed entry porch, paired windows, labeled brick window caps and bracketed eaves. It is one of few brick Italianate houses in town and is more modest than the larger, boxy Italianate homes of other community leaders. Brick additions were made at the rear in the 1870s and on the north side in the 1880s or 1890s. Hartwell's son and grandson, both named George H. Hartwell, continued the pharmacy. Modern buildings near the driveway have affected the setting.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; built by Dr. George H. Hartwell","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residential; condition described as good-fair. Modern buildings on either side of the driveway have damaged the historic setting as seen from the street.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.050233-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/17/7935/63793517/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000556.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000556/21dff22444-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000556/21dff22444-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SouthbridgeMA_GeorgeHHartwellHouse.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:SouthbridgeMA_GeorgeHHartwellHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793517","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Hartwell_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5540034"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/hartwell-george-h-house-89000556/"}