OLDNBPT

10 districts · 1,787 buildings in them · 53 survey areas in all

Neighborhoods

The state’s survey of Newburyport divides the city into areas: ten districts, a few legal designations and places, and dozens of single streets. Each has its buildings, its dates and its styles.

Districts

The state survey’s ten neighborhoods: groups of buildings that share a history, from the High Street ridge to the shipyards of the North End.

  1. NWB.A · 1790–1940High Street District246 buildings · 112 researched · 1 lost
  2. NWB.B · 1775–1880Ocean Mills District185 buildings · 33 researched · 3 lost
  3. NWB.C · 1800–1900Pleasant Street Industrial District8 buildings · 4 researched · 1 lost
  4. NWB.D · 1773–1890South End District382 buildings · 91 researched
  5. NWB.E · 1775–1889James Steam Mill District149 buildings · 24 researched · 1 lost
  6. NWB.F · 1750–1910Joppa District295 buildings · 48 researched · 2 lost
  7. NWB.G · 1825–1949Victorian Residential District151 buildings · 15 researched
  8. NWB.H · 1750–1885Washington Street Residential District200 buildings · 47 researched
  9. NWB.I · 1800–1930Merrimack Shipbuilding District263 buildings · 46 researched
  10. NWB.K · 1811–1873Market Square Historic District23 buildings · 12 researched

Designations

Areas with a legal standing: the National Register district, the Fruit Street local historic district, and the courthouse and Mall.

  1. NWB.J · 1805Superior Courthouse and Bartlett Mall1 building · 1 researched
  2. NWB.L · 1775–1925Newburyport Historic District2,621 buildings · 598 researched · 13 lost
  3. NWB.S · 1794–1891Fruit Street Local Historic District16 buildings · 15 researched

Places

Estates, parks, a wharf and a common: places the survey records as a whole.

  1. NWB.T · 1678–1901Marquand Estate4 buildings · 2 researched
  2. NWB.BA · 1800–1980Brown's Wharf18 buildings
  3. NWB.BB · Dates not recordedPlum Island Community Airfield0 buildings
  4. NWB.BC · 1805–1910Maudslay State Park: Farm Complex12 buildings
  5. NWB.BF · 1750–1980Common Pasture8 buildings
  6. NWB.AV · 1805–1950Maudslay State Park13 buildings

Streetscapes

Single streets or blocks the survey wrote up on their own. Each one’s summary is on its street page.

Bars show when each area’s buildings were built:Before 17751775–18301830–18601860–19001900–1945Since 1945

Areas and their boundaries are the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s (MACRIS, via MassGIS); a building is counted in every area its map point falls inside, so the totals overlap. Dates are the middle 80% of the buildings’ dates. Most buildings haven’t been researched yet: their dates and styles are the state inventory’s estimates.