{"nrhp_refnum":"98000149","name":"Eagle Hill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Border, Lexington, Trenton, and Falcon Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.37958900000004,"lon":-71.03660747184401,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-02-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Maritime History","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large, primarily residential historic district on Eagle Hill, one of the highest points in East Boston, Massachusetts, laid out by the East Boston Company and built up mostly in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It includes 437 contributing and 49 noncontributing buildings and two sites.","why_significant":"The district holds some of East Boston's earliest and finest buildings within a largely intact middle-class nineteenth-century neighborhood. Its early significance is tied to prominent clipper ship builders such as Donald McKay, and its later growth reflects a rising skilled and middle-class population. Its consistent forms and styles, mainly Greek Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne, give it a homogeneous character.","narrative":"Eagle Hill is a hilltop neighborhood in East Boston, Massachusetts, built mostly in the third quarter of the nineteenth century on land subdivided and sold by the East Boston Company. Its streets follow the contours of the hill, and most houses are two-and-a-half or three stories with narrow three-bay facades, built as single dwellings, duplexes or rows. Greek Revival houses came first, followed by a large number of Italianate buildings, with Queen Anne, Classical and Colonial Revival infill. Early residents included clipper ship builders such as Donald McKay, whose 1844 house stands at 80 White Street. A few large villa-style houses stand on spacious lots, while churches, schools and a former fire station add institutional variety. Later growth served a skilled working-class and middle-class population. With 437 contributing buildings and little demolition since, the district keeps a remarkably intact nineteenth-century urban character, which is why it was listed.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Classical, Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Several former institutional buildings, including the Chapman and Sheridan schools, the Jeffries Winter Club, the Masonic Hall and the former fire station, have been adapted for housing. Little demolition has occurred since the period of significance.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.198134-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7969/63796957/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/98000149.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000149/0b45d1b303-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000149/0b45d1b303-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BostonMA_MonmouthSquareEastBoston.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:BostonMA_MonmouthSquareEastBoston.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796957","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Hill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5325117"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/eagle-hill-historic-district-98000149/"}