{"nrhp_refnum":"99001043","name":"Conway Center Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"5-38 Academy Hill Rd., 1-59 Elm St., and 8-98 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Conway","county":"Franklin County","state":"MA","lat":42.50884350000004,"lon":-72.69654178828824,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twenty-four acre central village district in Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts, containing houses, civic and commercial buildings, barns and small landscape features along Main Street, Elm Street and Academy Hill Road, dating from about 1830 to the mid-twentieth century.","why_significant":"The district is a densely clustered, little-altered village center, with its main development in the 1840s and 50s, when civic activity shifted here from Pumpkin Hollow. Its modest Greek Revival and Gothic Revival wood-frame buildings, together with barns and sheds, reflect the town's farming and small-industry economy. The high-style Field Memorial Library (1901) is its architectural focal point.","narrative":"Conway Center is the compact village core of Conway, Massachusetts, set on a narrow floodplain where South River meets Pumpkin Hollow Brook and crowded by steep wooded hills. The twenty-four acre district runs along Main Street, Elm Street and Academy Hill Road and holds houses, a hotel, shops, a bank, a town hall, a library and many barns and sheds. Buildings date from about 1830 to the mid-twentieth century, and most are modest wood-frame structures with Greek Revival and Gothic Revival details from the 1840s and 50s, when the village grew fastest. Civic activity moved here from Pumpkin Hollow in the 1840s. The brick Federal Morse-Tucker house is the only brick house, and the neoclassical Field Memorial Library of 1901, with its copper dome, anchors the east end of Main Street. Barns recall the importance of farming and horse transport. Small monuments, a 1905 drinking fountain and two historic bridges add to the setting, which has little modern intrusion.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most buildings are well maintained, though several houses are in disrepair and some have been resided with aluminum or synthetic materials. The district has 52 contributing and 2 noncontributing resources.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.641539-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7951/63795111/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/99001043.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001043/4c77ded92d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001043/4c77ded92d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ToddC4176 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conway_Town_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ToddC4176 (talk)</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conway_Town_Hall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795111","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Center_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5166700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/franklin-county/conway-center-historic-district-99001043/"}