{"nrhp_refnum":"89000694","name":"Woodville School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Farm Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wakefield","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.49795706700007,"lon":-71.05066237199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-07-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodville School is a two-story red brick public school on Farm Road in Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, built in 1919-1920 on a 2.5-acre site. It is still used as a school.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is a well preserved example of Neo-Dutch Colonial institutional architecture and represents local public school design in Wakefield in the 1920s. It retains integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and meets Criterion C at the local level.","narrative":"Woodville School is a two-story red brick school on Farm Road in Wakefield, Massachusetts, built in 1919-1920 at a cost of about $67,000. Its Neo-Colonial design in the Dutch mode features a deep one-story center pavilion dominated by six long windows, flanked by lower slate-roofed wings, one holding an entry porch. Stepped parapets carry diamond patterns in brick, and the school's name is inscribed in cast stone on the central block. It is a symmetrical building with oversized cast stone details, comparable to the Neo-Georgian Montrose School from the same period. The school name traces to 1857, when the School Committee renamed the East District's school, earlier called Little World, as Woodville School. The area stayed thinly settled by farmers and shoemakers until suburban growth after the Second World War. The school closed in 1950 and later reopened as a 7th and 8th grade facility. It was listed for its well preserved architecture and its role as an example of local school design in the 1920s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neo-Colonial (Dutch)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition described as good; present use is a school. Major interior rehabilitation took place in 1950.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.758006-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7911/63791112/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89000694.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000694/32ba20c0fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000694/32ba20c0fd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.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:WakefieldMA_WoodvilleSchool.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791112","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodville_School_(Wakefield,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8033539"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/woodville-school-89000694/"}