South Street Historic District

South Street in Brockton's Campello section holds a compact, cohesive block of twenty houses and the South Congregational Church, dating from the mid 19th to early 20th century. The buildings share similar setbacks, lot sizes, porches, bays and clapboard or shingle siding, yet they show many styles, including Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, Mission, Arts and Crafts and Colonial Revival. Notable examples include Brockton's only Mission style house at number 27, an Arts and Crafts house designed by J. Williams Beal at number 36, and the Romanesque church of 1854 by Towle and Foster. After a new road in 1886 reduced through traffic, the street became a desirable residential location. Many early residents were shoe industry owners and merchants, among them the Keith family, who built several houses and helped fund the church. Skilled craftsmen and foremen occupied more modest homes. A single modern ranch house is the only intrusion.