Park Street
MACRIS NWB.AP · area form, 1980
Park Street was laid out by the county commissioners on 24 July 1845, running from High Street to Harris Street through land of Stephen Hodge on the northwest side of Sewall Place. The survey records that most of the street's houses were standing by 1851, nearly all Greek Revival.
Nos. 5, 6 and 7 are plain two-and-a-half-story houses with their gables to the street, each with a simple Greek Revival doorway and corner posts; together with No. 1, also Greek Revival, they give the short street its character. No. 3, somewhat later, is a Victorian house mixing Italianate and other elements and recalls A.J. Downing's cottage designs. No. 4 is transitional between Greek Revival and Victorian, and its bay window and bracketed entry may have been added later.
Residents were tied to the city's cotton cloth era. In 1851 Thomas L. Randlett, agent for the Globe Mill, lived at 1 Park Street, and later Herbert A. Ingraham, agent for the Bartlett Steam Mills, lived at No. 6. Other residents were merchants or small business owners.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
