{"nrhp_refnum":"95001173","name":"South Washington Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"145--327 S. Washington St. and 1--6 Hunting St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Attleborough","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.974481000000054,"lon":-71.33491970749958,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-10-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential historic district of 34 houses and 25 outbuildings on about 28.5 acres along South Washington Street and two houses on Hunting Street, at the southern end of North Attleborough village, Bristol County, Massachusetts.","why_significant":"The district shows two centuries of residential development, from a few eighteenth-century farmhouses to early twentieth-century suburban homes. Its main strength is a group of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Victorian to Colonial Revival houses, several designed by Boston and Providence firms. Nearly all were built for officers of local jewelry-making firms during the town's jewelry boom.","narrative":"South Washington Street Historic District is a densely settled suburban neighborhood at the southern end of North Attleborough village, laid out along an old route that became a colonial thoroughfare and later the Norfolk Bristol Turnpike. It includes 34 houses and 25 outbuildings on about 28.5 acres, with a further 6 houses and 12 outbuildings counted as noncontributing. Three eighteenth-century farmhouses, including the c. 1762 Edward Richards Homestead, recall the area when Richards and Draper family farms held most of the land. Small Greek Revival worker houses followed. The largest group dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when jewelry manufacturing brought prosperity and company officers built Stick, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and other style homes. The Hixon-Fisher House was remodeled in 1924 in a Tudor manner by Providence architect Albert Harkness. Most buildings are little altered and well maintained, and all remain in residential use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Albert Harkness of Providence, Rhode Island (1924 remodeling of the Hixon-Fisher House); other Boston and Providence firms mentioned but not named in the available text","architectural_style":"Georgian, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Stick, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"All houses remain in continuous use, nearly all as single-family residences; most are well maintained and little altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.337922-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/7944/63794452/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/95001173.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001173/6b7d011dc5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001173/6b7d011dc5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthAttleboroughMA_SouthWashingtonHD_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NorthAttleboroughMA_SouthWashingtonHD_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794452","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Washington_Street_Historic_District_(North_Attleborough,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7568809"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/south-washington-street-historic-district-95001173/"}