Kempton St., Rockdale Ave., Hawthorne St. and Brownell Ave., New Bedford, Massachusetts. County/parish: Bristol.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 24, 2000. NRIS 00000915.
250 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 19 contributing structures. 1 contributing object.
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. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794474