{"nrhp_refnum":"98000871","name":"Revere Beach Reservation Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Eliot Circle, Revere Beach Blvd., Northern Circle, and Atlantic Ocean","address_restricted":false,"city":"Revere","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.41878850000003,"lon":-70.98667034323574,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-07-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A linear public beach reservation district in Revere, Massachusetts, about six miles northeast of Boston, laid out in 1895 on Charles Eliot's plan for the Metropolitan Park System. It includes the beach, a bandstand, eight pavilions, a police station and a superintendent's house.","why_significant":"The district preserves the three-mile public beach and the 1890s-1900s structures built under Charles Eliot's plan for the Metropolitan Park Commission. The bandstand, pavilions, police station and superintendent's house were designed by Charles Austin of Stickney and Austin. The reservation was an early public seaside park in the metropolitan area.","narrative":"Revere Beach Reservation is a linear public beach district along the Atlantic Ocean in Revere, Massachusetts, about six miles northeast of downtown Boston. The state has owned and operated the three-mile beach as a public beach since 1895, when it was created under a plan by landscape designer Charles Eliot. Eliot's plan moved a railroad from the crest of the dune, replaced it with Revere Beach Boulevard, and cleared private buildings from the sand. The district counts twelve contributing resources: the beach, a police station, a superintendent's house, a bandstand and eight pavilions. Charles Austin of Stickney and Austin designed the structures. The bandstand and first four pavilions date to 1897, the remaining four pavilions to 1905. The police station followed in 1899 in the Italian Renaissance style, and the superintendent's house in 1905. The pavilions were restored in 1994 after damage from the blizzard of 1978. The former bath house was demolished in 1962.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Charles Austin of Stickney and Austin (designer of the bandstand, pavilions, police station and superintendent's house); landscape plan by Charles Eliot","architectural_style":"Late Victorian - Renaissance (Victorian Eclectic pavilions; Italian Renaissance police station and superintendent's house)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Police station leased to the state police; beach operated as a public beach; pavilions restored in 1994.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.083539-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/7970/63797068/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/98000871.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797068","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/revere-beach-reservation-historic-district-98000871/"}