{"nrhp_refnum":"89001351","name":"Granite Trust Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1400 Hancock St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.24953871900004,"lon":-71.00234544899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A bank and office tower at 1400 Hancock Street on the edge of Quincy Square in Quincy, Massachusetts, built in 1929 for the Granite Trust Company and designed by J. William Beals and Sons.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Quincy's best example of the Art Deco style and its only \"skyscraper.\" It is a local landmark associated with a Boston architectural firm of local importance and retains its integrity. It also represents a bank with roots in the 1836 Quincy Stone Bank.","narrative":"Rising eight, nine and ten stories above Quincy Square, the 1929 Granite Trust Company building at 1400 Hancock Street is the city's only \"skyscraper.\" Designed by J. William Beals and Sons, it is a limestone Art Deco office tower with a vertically oriented central block flanked by three-story sections that act as a base and frame. Storefronts are faced in polished granite, and a recessed entrance is marked by four two-story square granite columns. Ornamentation is subtle, in low relief, and the piers end without capitals or cornices. The building was erected by a bank descended from the Quincy Stone Bank of 1836, the community's first commercial bank. Theophilus King supervised construction. The firm also designed other Quincy landmarks, including the Adams Building and the Masonic Temple. The building is valued as Quincy's best example of Art Deco and as a prominent local landmark that retains its original character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J. William Beals and Sons","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, with no major alterations; it is in use as a bank and offices, and several storefront changes are said not to compromise its integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:01.621293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/7923/63792399/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001351.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001351/02f662daf2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001351/02f662daf2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granite_Trust_Company_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sswonk</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:Granite_Trust_Company_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792399","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Trust_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5595940"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/granite-trust-company-89001351/"}