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The Lower Highlands Historic District encompasses one of the oldest residential areas of
The Lower Highlands Historic District encompasses one of the oldest residential areas of Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state.
Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...
. The district is roughly bounded by Cherry, Main, Winter, and Bank Streets, and is located just east of the Downtown Fall River Historic District and directly south of the Highlands Historic District. This area was settled by 1810, has architecture tracing the city's growth as a major industrial center. The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1984.
History
The area of Fall River's Lower Highlands has a settlement history dating to the area's prehistory, when the banks of theQuequechan River
The Quequechan River is a river in Fall River, Massachusetts, that flows in a northwesterly direction from the northwest corner of the South Watuppa Pond through the heart of the city of Fall River and into the end of the Taunton River at Mou ...
were settled by Wampanoag
The Wampanoag , also rendered Wôpanâak, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts and historically parts of eastern Rhode Island,Salwen, "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island," p. 1 ...
Native Americans. The city's major thoroughfare were laid out by English colonists in the 18th century. The Lower Highlands area was by the late 18th century the site of grist, saw, and fulling mills, with a small community of residences clustered nearby. The first of the city's large textile mills was built on the Quequechan River in 1813. North Main Street and Bedford Street became commercial areas, and the area to their northeast developed as a residential district. A substantial portion of the area was devastated by fire in 1843, but was soon rebuilt. Little development has taken place since the early 20th century, when the city's economy began a long decline.
Description
The Lower Highlands district consists of about , roughly bounded by Cherry, Main, Winter, and Bank Streets. Most of its more than 100 buildings are residential in character, with the oldest dating to 1810. A modest number of houses survive that are Federal in style, and there are a significant number of houses with at least vernacular Greek Revival elements. Much of the construction in the second half of the 19th century was vernacular multiunit housing for workers, sometimes with modest vernacular stylistic elements popular at the time of construction. Prominent non-residential buildings include the 1875 Gothic Revival Church of the Ascension, and the Cataract Engine Company No. 3, built in 1843 after the great fire.Contributing properties (partial listing)
Residential *Randall N. Durfee House (c.1896), 435 Cherry Street *Elijah J. Kilburn House (c.1866), 239 High Street *Coggeshall House (c.1845), 166 Purchase Street Non-residential *J.D. Hathaway Carpentry Shop (c.1845), 325 Pine Street *Former Truesdale Clinic (1913), 160 Rock Street *Gee Building (1910), 202-212 Rock Street *Women's Union (1909), 101 Rock StreetProperties with separate NRHP Listings
* Cataract Engine Company No. 3, 116 Rock Street * Church of the Ascension, 160 Rock Street * William C. Davol, Jr. House, 252 High Street * James D. Hathaway House, 311 Pine StreetSee also
*National Register of Historic Places listings in Fall River, Massachusetts
The following properties in Fall River, Massachusetts are listed on the Registered Historic Places. This is a subset of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
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* Highlands Historic District (Fall River, Massachusetts)
References
{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Fall River, Massachusetts Historic districts in Bristol County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Fall River, Massachusetts Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts