{"nrhp_refnum":"94000737","name":"Hatfield Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Connecticut and Mill Rivers and Day Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hatfield","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.364453000000054,"lon":-72.59722068939388,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-07-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 465-acre historic district in the center of Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, covering a linear farming village along Main Street laid out in the 1660s, with 169 contributing resources including houses, farm outbuildings, institutional buildings, a cemetery and agricultural fields.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Hatfield Center is a well-preserved 17th-century linear village whose long homelots, streetside houses and surrounding open fields reflect continuous farming since the 1660s. It is significant for agriculture, architecture, community planning and development, and exploration/settlement, and for events such as the 1677 attack, Shays' Rebellion and the introduction of tobacco in 1856.","narrative":"Hatfield Center is a farming village on the west bank of the Connecticut River in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Its plan dates to surveys and allotments of the 1660s: long, narrow homelots with houses and barns close to Main Street, backed by open tilled fields, pasture and hayfields. The village was set away from the riverbank to limit flood damage and was once protected by a stockade. Buildings in the district include Georgian farmhouses from about 1740, the Greek Revival Congregational Church of 1849, a Victorian Gothic school of 1871, Dickinson Memorial Hall of 1894 and the Colonial Revival Memorial Town Hall of 1930. A burying ground established in 1669 holds some of the region's finest late 17th- to mid-19th-century gravestones. The district was listed for its agricultural history, its architecture, its early settlement and its well-preserved community plan, with a period of significance from 1669 to 1944.","period_of_significance":"1669-1944","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic farming, residential, civic, religious and cemetery uses continue; the former Lutheran Church has been converted to a residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.535367-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/73/7953/63795373/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/94000737.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000737/a02b52a542-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000737/a02b52a542-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_School_-_Hatfield,_Massachusetts_-_DSC01888.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_School_-_Hatfield,_Massachusetts_-_DSC01888.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795373","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5681369"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/hatfield-center-historic-district-94000737/"}