Buttonwood Park Historic District

Buttonwood Park Historic District
Formal Garden in Buttonwood Park
Buttonwood Park Historic District is located in Massachusetts
Buttonwood Park Historic District
Buttonwood Park Historic District is located in the United States
Buttonwood Park Historic District
LocationBounded by Kempton St., Rockdale Ave., Hawthorne St., and Brownell Ave., New Bedford, Massachusetts
Coordinates41°37′55″N 70°57′7″W / 41.63194°N 70.95194°W / 41.63194; -70.95194
Area113 acres (46 ha)
ArchitectCharles Eliot
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman
NRHP reference No.00000915 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 24, 2000

Buttonwood Park Historic District is a historic district on Kempton Street, Rockdale Avenue, Hawthorne Street and Brownell Avenue in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its focal point is Buttonwood Park, a 97-acre (39 ha) municipal park planned by Charles Eliot in the 1890s, and part of its surrounding neighborhood. The neighborhood was developed in the first decades of the 20th century as a complement to the park, and contains a fine selection of Colonial Revival and Craftsman style houses.[2] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Buttonwood Park Historic District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved June 16, 2014.