{"nrhp_refnum":"91001587","name":"Granville Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.06694650000006,"lon":-72.87527904918082,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district along about half a mile of Main Road (Route 57) at the geographic center of Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts, with 25 contributing and 22 noncontributing resources, mostly houses built from about 1770 to 1927.","why_significant":"The district contains some of the town's most ambitious Federal-style architecture, together with Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Queen Anne examples. It was the religious, commercial and political center of Granville in the early nineteenth century. It remains the seat of town government, with the Town Hall built in 1927.","narrative":"Granville Center, known locally as \"The Hill,\" is a half-mile stretch of Main Road (Route 57) at the geographic center of Granville, Massachusetts. Wood-frame houses with clapboard siding, brick chimneys and stone foundations sit close together beneath tall maples. Federal-style buildings dominate, including the L. Hubbard, Israel Parsons \"1800 House\" and Joel Root houses, which feature colossal pilasters and Palladian windows. Smaller groups of Greek Revival houses and single Gothic Revival and Queen Anne examples add variety. The 1802 First Church of Christ Congregational was served for decades by Dr. Timothy Mather Cooley. In the early nineteenth century the Center held a lawyer, a doctor, a store and a church. Commerce and industry shifted east to Granville Village by the mid-1800s, partly because of the drum factory's move in 1857. The Center stayed the seat of town government, and a Town Hall was built there in 1927.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; Gothic Revival; Late Victorian/Queen Anne; Late 19th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Several former commercial and institutional buildings, including the General Store and the Sabbath Day House, now serve as residences. The Town Hall and the church remain in public and religious use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.605294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7952/63795259/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/91001587.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001587/55ed6385fb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001587/55ed6385fb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Meeting_House,_July_2012,_Granville_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</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:Old_Meeting_House,_July_2012,_Granville_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795259","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5596871"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/granville-center-historic-district-91001587/"}