{"nrhp_refnum":"97000879","name":"North Hatfield Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along West St. and Depot Rd. Between I-91 and MA 10","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hatfield","county":"Hampshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.40754250000006,"lon":-72.62402173822328,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 64.5-acre rural village district in North Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, centered on West Street and Depot Road and crossed by the Boston and Maine Railroad tracks. It holds 40 contributing and 11 noncontributing resources, mostly wood-frame buildings dating from 1820 to 1940.","why_significant":"The district is nominated for its association with agriculture and transportation, since the railroad gave a small farming community its shape and focus. It is also nominated for architecture, with modest, utilitarian buildings in Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire and later styles. Reuse and moving of buildings reflect local thrift and practicality.","narrative":"North Hatfield is a small farming village in Hatfield, Massachusetts, laid out around the crossing of West Street and Depot Road and divided by railroad tracks. Most of its one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half-story wood-frame buildings date from 1820 to 1940, and they include houses, barns, outbuildings and former commercial and railroad structures. The area was once mostly pine plain, and farms spread through it in the 1840s and 1850s. When the Connecticut River Rail Road built its line two miles from Hatfield center, the tracks passed through North Hatfield and gave the village its focus. Architecture here is modest and practical. Raised cape houses, a Gothic Revival \"lightning splitter\" dated 1840, a former railroad depot converted to a house, and a post office converted from a dwelling show how buildings were moved, altered and reused. The district is significant for its agricultural and transportation history and for this plain village architecture, with a period of significance of 1820 to 1946.","period_of_significance":"1820-1946","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival, Gothic Revival; Late Victorian: Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne; Early 20th Century: Craftsman","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Most buildings are still in residential, agricultural or commercial use; the former depot is now a house and the post office building was converted from a house. One building at 317 West Street is described as vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.757537-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/89/7953/63795389/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/97000879.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000879/445e9e25c2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000879/445e9e25c2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HatfieldMA_NorthHatfieldHD.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:HatfieldMA_NorthHatfieldHD.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795389","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hatfield_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7055559"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/hampshire-county/north-hatfield-historic-district-97000879/"}