{"nrhp_refnum":"91000363","name":"Southampton Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, High St. from Fomer Rd. to Maple St., College Hwy. from Clark St. to East St. and East from College to Clark","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southampton","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.224762500000054,"lon":-72.73130127352934,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-04-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the center of Southampton, Massachusetts, covering a rural street village along College Highway, East Street, High Street and nearby cross streets. It contains 86 contributing and 34 noncontributing resources, mostly buildings dating from 1733 to about 1930.","why_significant":"The district is presented as the surviving core of a rural Massachusetts street village within its agricultural setting, with its layout largely unchanged. It holds civic, religious, commercial and residential buildings from the Colonial period through the early 20th century, including Federal houses, Greek Revival buildings, a Queen Anne group on East Street and Neo-Classical public buildings. The form ties the village's growth to farming, local trade, the canal and railroad, and shows little demolition or new construction in recent decades.","narrative":"Southampton Center is a rural New England street village in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, laid out along College Highway and High Street with cross streets separated by open fields. The district includes 120 resources, most of them houses, along with churches, schools, stores, a library and a town hall. The oldest building is the Jonathan Judd House of 1733, which was fortified during the French and Indian War. Federal-period landmarks include the First Congregational Church of 1788 and Woodbridge Hall of 1793. Later additions include Greek Revival houses, a cluster of Queen Anne residences on East Street, an Italianate brick house, and the Neo-Classical Edwards Library and Town Hall from the early 1900s. The Methodist Church of 1915 was the last major building erected in the center. The district was listed because the village layout and its older buildings survive largely intact, recording the community's growth from a farming settlement into a civic and commercial center.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Baldwin and Calvin Torrey (First Congregational Church); Page and Hayes (Edwards Library); Crabtree and Cadman (Town Hall); W. P. Crabtree (Methodist Church); R. F. Putnam (Swasey House)","architectural_style":"No style; Colonial/Georgian; Federal; Greek Revival; Gothic Revival; Italianate; Queen Anne; Colonial Revival; Tudor Revival; Classical Revival; Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as essentially intact with very little demolition or new construction in the last sixty years. Several former stores are now residences, and a former school serves as a fire station.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.027255-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7954/63795421/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/91000363.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000363/4804bf6c69-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000363/4804bf6c69-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwards_Library,_Southampton_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:Edwards_Library,_Southampton_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795421","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7569106"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/southampton-center-historic-district-91000363/"}