Myrtle Baptist Church Neighborhood Historic District
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Myrtle Baptist Church Neighborhood Historic District | |
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The Myrtle Baptist Church on Curve St. | |
| Location | Roughly Curve St. and Prospect St., Newton, Massachusetts |
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| Area | 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) |
| Built | 1874 |
| Architect | Spence, George W.; McGraw, J.G. |
| Architectural style | Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne |
| Governing body | Private |
| MPS | Newton MRA (AD) |
| NRHP Reference # | 08001178[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 11, 2008 |
The Myrtle Baptist Church Neighborhood Historic District encompasses a historic center of the African-American community in West Newton, Massachusetts. The district includes all of Curve Street, including the Myrtle Baptist Church, as well as a few properties on adjacent Auburn and Prospect Streets.[2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]
Curve Street, and adjacent areas that were razed to make way for the adjacent Massachusetts Turnpike, has been a center of Newton's African-American community since about 1870, and is the only such area to retain any sort of historic integrity in the city. The focus of the neighborhood became the Myrtle Baptist Church, a wood frame structure built in 1875 and rebuilt in 1898 after a fire, and nearby railroad yards provided a source of jobs for laborers who lived in the neighborhood. Houses along densely packed Curve Street have in some cases remained in the ownership of the same families since the area was first settled.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NRHP nomination for Myrtle Baptist Church Neighborhood Historic District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
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Coordinates: 42°20′48.3″N 71°14′5.5″W / 42.346750°N 71.234861°W