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The Norwell Village Area Historic District encompasses the village center of Norwell, Massachusetts. It is centered on the town common, first laid out in the 1640s, around which a number of public buildings are located, and radiates away along Main, Central, West, River, and Dover Streets.
This is a list of properties and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, other than those within the city of Quincy and the towns of Brookline and Milton. Norfolk County contains more than 300 listings, of which the more than 100 not in the above three communities are listed below.
Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km 2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south, it was originally part of Roxbury . The community seceded from Roxbury during the formation of West Roxbury in 1851 and became part of Boston when West Roxbury was annexed in 1874. [ 1 ]
In the state of Massachusetts, there are over 4,300 listings, representing about 5% of all NRHP listings nationwide and the second-most of any U.S. state, behind only New York. Listings appear in all 14 Massachusetts counties.
First Church of Jamaica Plain. July 15, 1988 : 6 Eliot St. Jamaica Plain: 78 ... Massachusetts Historical Society Building. October 15, 1966 1154 Boylston St. ...
Located on the South Shore of Massachusetts, Norwell is bordered by Hanover and Rockland on the west, Pembroke on the south, Marshfield and Scituate on the east and northeast, and Hingham on the north. Norwell is about 14 miles (23 km) east of Brockton, 17 miles (27 km) north of Plymouth and 20 miles (32 km) south of Boston.
Encompassing the Back Bay Fens, Muddy River, Olmsted (Leverett Park), Jamaica Park, Arborway, and Franklin Park: Jamaica Plain and Fenway-Kenmore: 100 (First) Harrison Gray Otis House (First) Harrison Gray Otis House
Jamaica Plain 42°18′42″N 71°07′03″W / 42.3117°N 71.1175°W / 42.3117; -71.1175 ( Ellen Swallow Richards Residence Home of Ellen Swallow Richards , who was the first female graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the first woman to receive an advanced degree in chemistry .