{"nrhp_refnum":"90001537","name":"Upham's Corner Market","other_names":["Farm Market"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 Columbia Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.31741343500005,"lon":-71.06480636999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Three attached brick-and-limestone commercial buildings at 600 Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, built between about 1919 and 1926 as the Upham's Corner Market, also called the Farm Market.","why_significant":"The market was an early predecessor of the modern supermarket, founded by brothers John and Paul Cifrino, and by the late 1920s it had over 50,000 square feet of retail space. Its Columbia Road facade is a unified, restrained Classical Revival design. Its rear parking lot is described as the first associated with a major store in the Boston area.","narrative":"Three attached buildings at 600 Columbia Road in Dorchester, Boston, form a crescent-shaped block that once held the Upham's Corner Market. Built between about 1919 and 1926, the buildings share a red brick front with Indiana limestone trim in a restrained Classical Revival style, while the rear elevations are plain and built for loading produce. Brothers John and Paul Cifrino founded the business in 1915, and it grew in stages into a store of more than 50,000 square feet. It sold groceries, meats, baked goods and a wide range of other goods, including a cafeteria, soda fountain and shoe repair shop. Willard M. Bacon designed the 1923 building. In 1926 the Cifrinos cleared six wood-frame houses behind the store for a customer parking lot, said to be the first of its kind for a major Boston-area store. The property was recognized for its commercial importance and its architecture at the local level.","period_of_significance":"1919-1933","architect_builder":"Bacon, Willard M.","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival; Jacobean Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Buildings had sat empty and been vandalized, with storefronts boarded in plywood; a laundromat operated at the extreme left end at the time of the form. Interiors were open and water damaged.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.866014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/7967/63796772/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90001537.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001537/c04b591f21-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001537/c04b591f21-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BostonMA_UphamsCornerMarket.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:BostonMA_UphamsCornerMarket.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100009975","name":"Uphams Corner Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/uphams-corner-historic-district-100009975/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796772","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upham%27s_Corner_Market","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7898290"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/uphams-corner-market-90001537/"}