{"nrhp_refnum":"99000593","name":"Woodbourne Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Walk Hill, Goodway, and Wachusett Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.29198450000007,"lon":-71.11559052367284,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 30-acre residential historic district in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, Massachusetts, built mostly in the first four decades of the 20th century on the sites of former 19th-century estates. It contains 424 resources, including 332 contributing buildings.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a nearly intact example of early-20th-century middle-class New England housing. It reflects the conversion of country estates to housing, Boston's experiment with reform and model housing, streetcar suburbs and the early influence of the automobile. Its curvilinear streets, Garden City planning and wide range of house types and revival styles remain largely preserved.","narrative":"Woodbourne is a 30-acre residential neighborhood in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston, laid out on land that began as several mid-19th-century estates. Most of its 424 resources were built in the first four decades of the 20th century. Development followed three patterns: a northern section subdivided from 1898 around the Olney estate, a core section built from 1911 to 1913 as a model housing scheme for the Boston Dwelling House Company to designs by Robert Anderson Pope, and a smaller southern section laid out by John Goodway on former North End Mission land. Streets curve with the hills, and old pines, oaks and stone walls survive from the estates. The houses are modest single-family, two-family and multi-family homes in Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, Tudor Revival and Craftsman styles. The neighborhood is recognized as a nearly intact record of early suburban housing, reform housing ideas and the growth of streetcar and automobile suburbs.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Robert Anderson Pope (designer of the Boston Dwelling House Company plan); Kilham & Hopkins; Mulhall & Holmes; Woodbury & Stuart; James G. Hutchinson; Albin Brodin; James C. Martin; John F. Cullen (Seaver School); developer John Goodway","architectural_style":"Late Victorian (Queen Anne, Shingle); Late Victorian and Early 20th Century Revival (Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Classical Revival, Dutch Colonial); Bungalow/Craftsman/Arts & Crafts","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still largely intact and in residential use; two former schools, one now condominiums and one used for administration, and a former clubhouse converted to a house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.951179-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/7970/63797014/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/99000593.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797014","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8032395"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/woodbourne-historic-district-99000593/"}