{"nrhp_refnum":"90001851","name":"West Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:West Main Street Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"83--118 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Westborough","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.26490050000007,"lon":-71.62090593313948,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district extension along West Main Street (83-118) in Westborough, Massachusetts, just west of the existing West Main Street Historic District. It holds 24 contributing and 14 noncontributing buildings on about 11 acres, dating from about 1713 to the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The extension is significant for its link to Westborough's change from an agricultural community to a diversified manufacturing town, and for its well-preserved Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival and Queen Anne houses. It has a notable concentration of eighteenth-century dwellings, with eight of the contributing buildings built before 1800. Several houses are tied to local leaders and families, including the Rice family, Lyman Belknap and Reuben Boynton.","narrative":"Along West Main Street in Westborough, Massachusetts, a row of houses just west of an earlier historic district forms a boundary extension of 24 contributing and 14 noncontributing buildings. Most are single-family homes built from about 1713 into the early twentieth century, and all still serve as residences. Eight of the contributing buildings predate 1800. The group includes a saltbox from 1739, Georgian houses, Federal houses with fanlights and sidelights, a brick Greek Revival house of 1832, and Queen Anne houses from the 1890s. One building, at 108 West Main Street, began as the Blue Anchor Tavern in 1732 and hosted Revolutionary War figures before being moved in 1820. The houses are linked to settlers and merchants such as Thomas Rice, Lyman Belknap and Reuben Boynton. Together they show how the town moved from farming to railroad-era manufacturing, as large farm lots were gradually subdivided.","period_of_significance":"1713-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No Style; Colonial/Georgian; Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Late 19th Century Revival/Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"All buildings in the extension area continue to function as single-family residences; the Blue Anchor Tavern building is now a house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.914334-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7973/63797318/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/90001851.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001851/6278b2226d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001851/6278b2226d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unitarian_Universalist_Congregational_Society_of_Westborough_-_Westborough,_Massachusetts_-_DSC05133.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unitarian_Universalist_Congregational_Society_of_Westborough_-_Westborough,_Massachusetts_-_DSC05133.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Main_Street_Historic_District_(Westborough,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17035788"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/west-main-street-historic-district-boundary-increase-90001851/"}