{"nrhp_refnum":"91001589","name":"West Granville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Main Rd. from W of Beach Hill Rd. to South Ln. No. 2","address_restricted":false,"city":"Granville","county":"Hampden County","state":"MA","lat":42.07821300000006,"lon":-72.9397391222249,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A village historic district in West Granville, the westernmost of Granville's three settlements in Hampden County, Massachusetts, centered on Main Road (Route 57) at its crossing with Beech Hill and Hartland Hollow Roads. It contains 40 contributing and 17 noncontributing resources, mostly buildings from about 1763 to the mid-19th century.","why_significant":"West Granville holds the only surviving buildings from Granville's mid-18th-century settlement and retains a large group of Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival buildings. The 1778 Second Church of Christ Congregational marks its role as a religious and civic center. Its first preacher was Reverend Lemuel Haynes, later a prominent Black figure in American history. The village also holds the only brick Federal dwelling in Granville's three villages.","narrative":"West Granville is a small crossroads village in the hills of southwestern Massachusetts, set apart from Granville's other settlements by the Great Valley to the east and a notch in the Berkshire Hills to the west. Its houses, mostly wood-frame with center chimneys, stone foundations and clapboard siding, line Main Road beneath maples about 150 years old. Georgian farmhouses from the 1760s, including the Baldwin, Coe and Lloyd houses, are the oldest buildings in the town. Federal houses followed, among them the 1790 brick John Phelps House, the only brick Federal dwelling in Granville's three villages. The Second Church of Christ Congregational, built in 1778 and later given Greek Revival additions, anchors the village green. Its first preacher, Lemuel Haynes, became a notable Black figure in American history. Building slowed after 1830 as the town's population moved east toward industry. The district's boundaries follow natural land formations, and few modern intrusions affect its historic character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Georgian; Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival; Late 19th Century Revival/Colonial Revival; Bungalow; No Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic uses such as houses, a general store, a church and parsonage, and a cemetery continue in the present; the academy is now listed as a school.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.910483-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/7951/63795159/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/91001589.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001589/a96896fb37-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001589/a96896fb37-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Congregational_Church,_West_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:Congregational_Church,_West_Granville_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795159","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Granville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7985246"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampden-county/west-granville-historic-district-91001589/"}