{"nrhp_refnum":"94000735","name":"Upper Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main St. from 83 Main to Cow Bridge, 1--44 King St. and 6--70 North St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hatfield","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.387819000000036,"lon":-72.59532503913039,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, covering Main Street north of the town center, plus King and North Streets. It includes farmhouses, barns and open agricultural fields, with buildings dating from about 1705 to the 1990s.","why_significant":"The district is significant for agriculture, architecture, community planning and development, and exploration/settlement. It preserves part of the original 1661 linear village plan, with house lots along the street and the northern meadows still farmed. Its buildings show Federal, Greek Revival and later styles in a consistent rural setting.","narrative":"Upper Main Street runs north from the center of Hatfield, Massachusetts, and forms a district of farmhouses, barns and open fields that follows the town's original 17th-century layout. Settlers laid out narrow house lots along the street in 1661 and assigned meadow land to the north, and the northern meadows are still unfenced and farmed. Houses range from the Justin Waite House of about 1705 to modest Federal and Greek Revival farmhouses, several attributed to local carpenter Hiram Marsh, with a cluster of higher-style late 19th-century buildings near Main and North Streets. Tobacco, onions and potatoes were grown here, and livestock, horse and tobacco barns remain, though some early tobacco barns are vacant and deteriorating. The district was listed for its agricultural history, its architecture, and the way its settlement pattern has survived from 1705 through 1944, with 104 contributing resources.","period_of_significance":"1705 - 1944","architect_builder":"Hiram Marsh; Caleb Cooley Dickinson","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Residential and agricultural use continues. Many early tobacco barns stand vacant and are deteriorating, while some tobacco shops and a barn have been converted to housing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.570914-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7953/63795375/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/94000735.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000735/2b2fc9597b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000735/2b2fc9597b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upper_Main_Street_Historic_District,_Hatfield_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:Upper_Main_Street_Historic_District,_Hatfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795375","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Main_Street_Historic_District_(Hatfield,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7898764"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/upper-main-street-historic-district-94000735/"}