{"nrhp_refnum":"94001492","name":"Faneuil, Peter, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"60 Joy St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.36044336400005,"lon":-71.06573030299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story red-brick elementary school at 60 Joy Street on the north slope of Beacon Hill, Boston, built in 1909-1910 and designed by James T. Kelley and Harold S. Graves.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the school under architecture, as an eclectic Classical Revival and Tudor Revival building with Tapestry Brick patterning and cast-stone trim, and under education, as an example of early twentieth-century Boston school design. The site also has strong ties to Boston's nineteenth-century free African-American community, which once lived on the parcel.","narrative":"Peter Faneuil School is a four-story, flat-roofed brick schoolhouse on Boston's Beacon Hill, built in 1909-1910 between Joy and South Russell streets. Architects James T. Kelley and Harold S. Graves gave it a symmetrical three-part plan, red brick walls with patterned \"Tapestry Brick\" work, and cast-stone trim. Elaborate doorways carry a bust of a periwigged man, presumably Peter Faneuil, and separate entrances once served boys and girls. Inside, terrazzo floors and white glazed brick wainscoting survive, and the plan held 17 classrooms on three upper floors. The school reflects Boston's early twentieth-century response to crowded immigrant neighborhoods and to new ideas about school design. The land also has a deeper past: in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it held homes and businesses of free African-American families connected to the nearby African Meeting House. The property has changed little apart from resurfaced yards and lost fencing, and it is being converted to housing.","period_of_significance":"1909 - 1944","architect_builder":"James T. Kelley & Harold S. Graves","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival-Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The building is being rehabilitated for housing, with a new infill building planned along Joy Street; the South Russell Street yard is to be kept for recreation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.603919-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/93/7968/63796893/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/94001492.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001492/55ea5fb0b1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001492/55ea5fb0b1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Swampyank at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Faneuil_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Swampyank at English Wikipedia</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:Peter_Faneuil_School.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"66000130","name":"Beacon Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/beacon-hill-historic-district-66000130/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796893","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Faneuil_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7173928"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/faneuil-peter-school-94001492/"}