{"nrhp_refnum":"90000013","name":"Newton Highlands Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly Lincoln St., Hartford St., Erie Ave., and Woodward St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.32111884500006,"lon":-71.20731703628115,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase to the Newton Highlands Historic District in Newton, Massachusetts, covering the village's commercial center around Lincoln and Walnut Streets. It includes eleven commercial properties and the Women's Club at 72 Columbus Street, dating from about 1870 to 1938.","why_significant":"The form argues the area is one of Newton's most intact village commercial centers, illustrating the city's rapid 20th century growth and the expanded services of its village centers. Its late 19th and early 20th century commercial blocks record the shift in the building type from multi-story to one-story height. It adds the missing commercial component to the earlier, mainly residential district.","narrative":"Newton Highlands grew up around a small railroad station, and this boundary increase covers its commercial heart at Lincoln and Walnut Streets. The area adds a business district to the neighboring historic district, which is mostly 19th century housing. It contains eleven commercial properties and the Newton Highlands Woman's Club at 72 Columbus Street, built from plans by Edward B. Stratton in 1927. Nineteenth century buildings are generally three-story wood-frame or masonry blocks, such as the 1888 Queen Anne Stevens building and the 1893 Patterson Block. Twentieth century buildings are one-story brick or cast stone blocks. The finest is 43-53 Lincoln Street, designed in 1916 by F. A. Norcross with a Beaux-Arts cast stone parapet. A 1928 garage on Walnut Street is the only surviving early auto-related structure. The district was recognized as one of Newton's most intact village centers, showing the city's growth after the railroad and trolley lines arrived. All twelve buildings are counted as contributing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"F. A. Norcross (43-53 Lincoln St., 1916); Wineberg & Wexler (55-65 Lincoln St., 1924); Edward B. Stratton (Women's Club Workshop, 1927); Herman L. Feer (23-33 Lincoln St., 1938); Clifford White (facade of Walnut Street Garage)","architectural_style":"Mix of Queen Anne, Mansard, Beaux-Arts, Moderne, Eclectic and Commercial styles","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"General condition stated as good; present use commercial.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.750095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/49/7918/63791849/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90000013.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000013/4997d247ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000013/4997d247ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_on_Lincoln_St,_Newton_Highlands_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_on_Lincoln_St,_Newton_Highlands_MA.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86001747","name":"Newton Highlands Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/newton-highlands-historic-district-86001747/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791849","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Highlands_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020259"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/newton-highlands-historic-district-boundary-increase-90000013/"}