{"nrhp_refnum":"99001614","name":"Church Green Buildings Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"101-113 Summer St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.353382958000054,"lon":-71.05772837599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-12-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-building commercial historic district at 101-113 Summer Street in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, made up of the granite Church Green Building (105-113 Summer, built 1873) and the adjacent marble building at 101-103 Summer Street.","why_significant":"The Church Green Building is tied to the New England Shoe and Leather Manufacturers and Dealers Association, a trade group serving one of Boston's major 19th-century industries, and is the only surviving building linked to its growth. It is also a strong example of Second Empire massing with Neo-Grec ornament, built soon after the Great Boston Fire of 1872. The two buildings together retain integrity and show the rebuilding of the burnt district.","narrative":"Two adjoining commercial buildings at 101-113 Summer Street in downtown Boston form this district. The larger, 105-113 Summer Street, was built in 1873 at the point where Summer, Bedford and Lincoln Streets meet. It is a 4½-story granite structure with a slate mansard roof, canted corner bays and carved Neo-Grec detail. Next door, 101-103 Summer Street is a five-story marble building that combines Italianate and Neo-Grec elements. Both went up after the Great Boston Fire of 1872 destroyed hundreds of downtown buildings, and they reflect the quick rebuilding of the area. The larger building housed the Shoe and Leather Exchange, run by a trade association central to one of Boston's leading industries, and later hosted shoe dealers, tailors, banks and shops. Its designer, John Lyman Faxon, was a young architect trained at M.I.T. Storefronts and interiors were rebuilt in 1981 and 1998, but the upper facades remain largely as built.","period_of_significance":"1873-1949","architect_builder":"James Lyman Faxon; Nathaniel J. Bradlee","architectural_style":"Second Empire: Neo-Grec; Italianate: Neo-Grec","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Both buildings were renovated in 1981 and 1998 and are in commercial use as offices and retail space. Storefronts and interiors are modern, while the upper exteriors remain largely original.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.738039-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/61/7967/63796761/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/99001614.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001614/002edab50e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001614/002edab50e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_Green_Buildings_Historic_District_Boston_MA_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Church_Green_Buildings_Historic_District_Boston_MA_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796761","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Green_Buildings_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5116598"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/church-green-buildings-historic-district-99001614/"}