Jackson Terrace Historic District

Jackson Terrace is a small residential enclave beside the Lawrence Common, grouped around an elliptical landscaped court edged with granite and entered by granite steps. Its fourteen contributing buildings, built between about 1850 and 1923, include Italianate houses, a mansard-roofed dentist's residence, four Queen Anne rental houses and two institutional buildings: an 1850 brick school and a 1923 Neo-Classical Masonic Temple. The area grew out of Charles Storrow's 1840s plan for the city, which the Essex Company developed as a textile center. Bay State Mills built modest worker and manager housing on Jackson Court. In 1874 builder Morris Knowles and mill agent John A. Fallon bought the lots, agreed to keep strips of land open, and later built the Queen Anne houses. The district was listed because it is the only development of its kind in Lawrence and preserves its landscape and architecture. Many buildings are in poor condition, and the form urges that the original granite curbing and bollards be kept.