{"nrhp_refnum":"89001373","name":"Quincy Police Station","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"442 Southern Artery","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.25595762000006,"lon":-70.99576000699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story yellow brick police station at 442 Southern Artery in Quincy, Massachusetts, built in 1925 for $75,000 and designed by Clark, Batty and Gallagher.","why_significant":"It was Quincy's first building erected specifically to house the municipal police force and reflects the expansion of municipal services in the 1920s and 1930s. It is also a fine example of a simple Classical Revival public building. Reviewers accepted it as a locally important building under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Built in 1925 at a cost of $75,000, the police station at 442 Southern Artery in Quincy was the city's first building constructed specifically for its police force. Before it opened, officers worked from an 1829 school building on School Street, since demolished. The department itself traces to ordinances passed in 1889 and 1892, which created the force of a salaried chief and patrolmen. The three-story yellow brick building rises from a high concrete basement and is topped by a plain cornice and a shaped parapet bearing the Quincy seal in a pedimented center section. Two side entrances have Greek pediments and pilasters, and giant pilasters between the windows give the facade a vertical emphasis. The local firm Clark, Batty and Gallagher designed it, and William R. Lofgren served as builder. It sits among a complex of city buildings at Southern Artery and Quincy Shore Drive, and its listing recognizes both its municipal history and its simple Classical Revival design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect: Clark, Batty and Gallagher; builder: William R. Lofgren","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Recorded in good condition with no major alterations; described as the present police station.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.619276-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7925/63792522/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001373.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001373/74c482f512-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001373/74c482f512-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sswonk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quincy_MA_Police_Station.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:Quincy_MA_Police_Station.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792522","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Police_Station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7272173"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/quincy-police-station-89001373/"}