{"nrhp_refnum":"89001056","name":"Tyler Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Princeton, Foster, and Pine Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lowell","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.63165956800006,"lon":-71.34113050529844,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A late 19th and early 20th century planned streetcar suburb in the Lowell Highlands, northwest of Lowell's city center, centered on Tyler Park (designed 1893) and made up mostly of single- and two-family houses built between about 1890 and 1924.","why_significant":"The district is an excellent, well-preserved example of the suburbanization of industrial Lowell, as the middle classes moved to higher land in commercially developed suburbs. It holds a concentrated group of vernacular houses in many Victorian and revival styles arranged around a planned public park by Charles Eliot. It is significant locally under Criteria A and C.","narrative":"Tyler Park Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the Lowell Highlands, laid out around a small public park designed in 1893 by Charles Eliot of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. The park's 2.74 acres still follow the original plan, which works with a hollow, rocky outcroppings and mature trees. Around it stand mostly wood-frame single- and two-family houses built between about 1890 and 1924, in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Bungalow and other styles, along with a few older farmhouse-era dwellings and the 1897 Pine Street School by Harry Prescott Graves. Most houses were built by local builders, and their consistent quality gives the area its cohesion. The district was listed because it shows how Lowell's middle classes moved to streetcar suburbs on higher ground at the turn of the twentieth century. It represents community planning and development, social history and architecture, with a period of significance from 1893 to 1938.","period_of_significance":"1893-1938","architect_builder":"Landscape architect Charles Eliot (Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot); Harry Prescott Graves (Pine Street School); builders Edmond Douglas and J. Alfred Lequin; many unknown local builders","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are in good condition with generally minor alterations. The park remains essentially as constructed, and the Pine Street School is still in use as a school.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.333543-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/7958/63795832/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001056.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001056/a78b8704a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001056/a78b8704a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LowellMA_TylerPark.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:LowellMA_TylerPark.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795832","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7860111"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/tyler-park-historic-district-89001056/"}