{"nrhp_refnum":"91001588","name":"Granville Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, area around jct. of Maple St. and Main and Granby Rds., including part of Water St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.06517050000005,"lon":-72.86448978451881,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 59 acres in Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts, centered on Main Road, Maple Street, Granby Road and Water Street. It has 54 contributing resources, mostly 19th-century wood-frame houses, plus civic, religious and industrial buildings.","why_significant":"The village grew around drum manufacturing, which began with the Noble and Cooley Drum Company in 1854 and shaped its housing, civic buildings and prosperity. It also preserves early Baptist church history, a privately founded co-educational academy, and a well-kept range of Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival architecture.","narrative":"Granville Village, also called East Granville or Jockey Corners, is a half-mile stretch of Massachusetts Route 57 lined with old maple trees. It is mostly residential, with 19th-century clapboard houses of modest ornament, along with a library, a Grange hall, a parsonage and a drum factory. The district includes a triangular common at the meeting of Granby Road and Maple Street. Its growth followed the drum trade. Noble and Cooley began making drums in 1854, and the company later moved to Water Street beside Dickinson Brook. Its surviving buildings have been used continuously. Workers lived in small Greek Revival houses along Main Road, and the Civil War boom brought merchants who built Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes on Maple Street. Other landmarks include the 1850 academy building, later a Baptist parsonage, the 1890 Grange and the 1901 Romanesque Revival public library. A few early houses, dating from 1804 to about 1820, record the village's beginnings as a small crossroads.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian; Early Republic/Federal; Greek Revival; Italianate; Queen Anne; Romanesque; Colonial Revival; No Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Noble and Cooley drum factory buildings on Water Street have been in continuous use. The Baptist meetinghouse was moved and altered into a non-contributing residence, and the Wilcox Hotel was demolished around 1920.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.969454-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7952/63795261/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/91001588.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001588/d878dea75e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001588/d878dea75e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Granville_Public_Library,_Granville_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:Granville_Public_Library,_Granville_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795261","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5596969"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/granville-village-historic-district-91001588/"}