Southampton Center Historic District

Southampton Center is a rural New England street village in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, laid out along College Highway and High Street with cross streets separated by open fields. The district includes 120 resources, most of them houses, along with churches, schools, stores, a library and a town hall. The oldest building is the Jonathan Judd House of 1733, which was fortified during the French and Indian War. Federal-period landmarks include the First Congregational Church of 1788 and Woodbridge Hall of 1793. Later additions include Greek Revival houses, a cluster of Queen Anne residences on East Street, an Italianate brick house, and the Neo-Classical Edwards Library and Town Hall from the early 1900s. The Methodist Church of 1915 was the last major building erected in the center. The district was listed because the village layout and its older buildings survive largely intact, recording the community's growth from a farming settlement into a civic and commercial center.