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Property names
doncram (talk) 09:50, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * One among three church properties nationwide mispelled with "Epsicopal" in the name, where it should be as "Episcopal":
 * 1) 84002213 St. Thomas Epsicopal Church, in Taunton, MA
 * submitted in batch01:2-4, reported by NRHP_RT to be fixing in NRIS as of 3/4/2009. doncram (talk) 23:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Neponset Valley Parkway, Metorpolitan Park System of Greater Boston in (surprisingly) Boston. Nyttend (talk) 18:36, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * submitted in batch01:17, reported by NRHP_RT to be fixing in NRIS as of 3/4/2009. doncram (talk) 23:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * House at 391 Williams Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, should be William Street; the address is likewise 391 Williams rather than 391 William. Nyttend (talk) 02:05, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
 * batch03:43


 * Essex Insitiute Historic District in Essex County, Massachusetts. Nyttend (talk) 15:08, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * batch03:44 Insitiute should be changed to Institute.


 * Cambidge Common Historic District Amendment in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nyttend (talk) 02:58, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * batch03:45 Cambidge should be changed to Cambridge.


 * Berkshie Mill No. 1 is listed in Berkshire County, MA. Clearly should be Berkshire Mill No. 1.  Nyttend (talk) 00:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * batch03:46


 * Turner Falls Historic District, listed in Turner Falls, Massachusetts — apparently the place is Turners Falls, so both location and district name are wrong. Nyttend (talk) 01:40, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * batch03:47


 * Dorchester North Burying Ground in Boston, listed at Stroughton St. and Columbia Rd.: proper spelling is "Stoughton", with no "r". Nyttend (talk) 03:34, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Levi F. Warren Jr. High School, which both my brothers attended but from which I was spared by our move to Florida, is listed by NPS as Warren, Levi, Jr., High School). This assumes that it is a high school name for Levi F. Warren, Jr., but in reality it was a junior high school name for Levi F. Warren, The F by the way was always used in the school's name. clariosophic (talk) 20:55, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I copied this in from discussion at wt:NRHP about Jr., Sr., III punctuation. The correction needed, I think, is to revise NRIS to read "Levi F. Warren Junior High School".  Spelling out "Junior" seems to me to clarify that it is a Junior High School.  Certainly drop the comma before Junior, and add the needed F. doncram (talk) 00:28, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Fruitlands Museum Historic District appears misspelled in NRIS with MuseumS. NRIS presents as: "Fruitlands Museums Historic District".  Fruitlands is plural but there is only one Museum, the Fruitlands Museum. doncram (talk) 23:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, MA, refnum 03000993, is listed in NRIS as "Bellvue Cemetery". Typo:  Bellvue;  correction Bellevue.  That the correct name is Bellevue is noted by User:EraserGirl and is documented by google search yielding many hits on Bellevue Cemetery in Lawrence, such as Find-a-Grave: Browse by Cemetery: Bellevue Cemetery. doncram (talk) 17:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Tenney Castle Gatehouse, Methuen, MA refnum 8400243, is listed in NRIS as "Tenny Gatehouse". Typo: Tenny; correction Tenney. Gatehouse was built for the 76 acre estate of Charles H. Tenney. EraserGirl (talk) 06:02, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Odd Fellow's Hall in Buckland: correct punctuation to Odd Fellows' Hall. Nyttend (talk) 17:02, 22 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Straitsmouth Island Light, Rockport. Although the US Coast Guard Light List and the NRIS use "Straightsmouth", NOAA charts, local maps, and the local press all use "Straitsmouth". I have combined the two different Wiki articles and redirected "Straightsmouth" to "Straitsmouth" Jameslwoodward (talk) 14:41, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Massachuetts Hornfels-Braintree Slate Quarry in Milton: correct "Massachuetts" to "Massachusetts". Nyttend (talk) 14:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

03000746 	Blue Hills Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 03000748 	Breakheart Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 03000381 	Fellsmere Park Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 04001429 	Fresh Pond Parkway--Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 03001470 	Hull Shore Drive, Nantasket Avenue, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS 03000380 	Lynn Fells Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 04001572 	Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 05001529 	Mystic Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS 05001529 	Mystic Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS 05001529 	Mystic Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS 05001529 	Mystic Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS 03000747 	Nahant Beach Boulevard-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 08000693 	Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 07001241 	Revere Beach Parkway--Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 05001509 	Stony Brook Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Great Boston MPS 04001430 	Truman Parkway--Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 04001432 	VFW Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 05001528 	West Roxbury Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 03001469 	Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston 03001471 	Winthrop Parkway, Metropolitan Parkway System of Greater Boston
 * The names for a whole batch of items covered in one MPS were given names in NRIS that include all or most of the MPS name. Perhaps the State of Massachusetts or individual nominator who prepared all these made the same systematic error in including all or most of the MPS name as part of title of the property.  But it seems that the NRHP places covered should each have their own name, not including the MPS phrase.  These are:
 * Note the last one above names the MPS differently, using "Parkway" rather than "Park" in the name, which seems like a further small error in that case. Wikipedia articles corresponding to many/most of the above are:


 * 1) Blue Hills Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 2) Breakheart Reservation Parkways-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 3) Fells Connector Parkways, Metropolitan System of Greater Boston
 * 4) Fellsmere Park Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 5) Fresh Pond Parkway--Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 6) Lynn Fells Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 7) Morton Street, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 8) Mystic Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
 * 9) Nahant Beach Boulevard-Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 10) Neponset Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 11) Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston not yet created
 * 12) Revere Beach Parkway--Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 13) Stony Brook Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Great Boston MPS
 * 14) Truman Parkway--Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 15) VFW Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 16) West Roxbury Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * 17) Winthrop Parkway, Metropolitan Parkway System of Greater Boston
 * 18) Winthrop Shore Dr., Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
 * Noted by several persons in implementing wikipedia articles with shorter/different names for these NRHP places. doncram (talk) 00:03, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Adams National Historic Site was listed on the National Register in 1966 at refnum 660000051 but the site was renamed "Adams National Historical Park" on November 2, 1998. See, which spells it out but actually doesn't say the name changed. Even better is , which gives more detail and even this statement: REFERENCES TO THE HISTORIC SITE.—Any reference in any law (other than this Act), regulation, document, record, map, or other paper of the United States to the Adams National Historic Site shall be considered to be a reference to the historical park.
 * Noted by Sswonk and more info provided by (User:Jameslwoodward.
 * I checked the National Register announcements in weeks following the November 2, 1998 date and find no name change announced in the National Register.
 * The original National Register name still shows in NRIS and in mirror sites such as this one.
 * It appears this should be renamed in the National Register to "Adams National Historical Park". doncram (talk) 16:05, 15 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Woodward Institute, Quincy, MA. The school's website and the sign out front give no evidence that it has ever been called anything other than "The Woodward School for Girls". . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 22:50, 1 November 2009 (UTC) (I am unrelated, as far as I know -- no COI here.)


 * R. H. Stearns House, 140 Tremont Street, Boston. The building at 140 Tremont Street was the flagship department store of the long gone R. H. Stearns company; it still has the name on its elaborate canopy. It's not, therefore, a house.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 11:10, 9 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Mariner's House. NRIS uses the apostrophe, but the organization does not; I have moved the article to Mariners House; I'll leave what goes in the box on the Boston listings to those who care more than I do.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 17:27, 22 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England is correctly Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England. The address is 514 Parker Street, not 520. see the Cathedral's web site.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  12:39, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Cleveland Ledge Light Station is on the US Coast Guard Light List as Cleveland East Ledge Light. NRIS shows it in Bourne, Massachusetts. It's actually in Falmouth, MAssachusetts. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  00:51, 17 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Salem Laundry is misspelled "Landry" in NRIS.  Magic ♪piano 15:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Demolished but still listed

 * Ashley House (Fall River, Massachusetts), demolished in July 1983.
 * Jonathan Dean House (Taunton, Massachusetts), demolished for a drug store.--Marcbela (talk) 14:17, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * St. Joseph's Church (Springfield, Massachusetts). Demolished in March 2008. See article for ref. clariosophic (talk) 00:17, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Turnpike House was a historic house at 314 Broadway in Methuen, Massachusetts. Demolished per local wikipedian User:EraserGirl . doncram (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Unitarian Society (Fall River, Massachusetts), destroyed by fire in September 1983.--Marcbela (talk) 14:13, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Winslow Congregational Church (Taunton, Massachusetts), demolished in 1990s. replaced with a new church.

In Quincy, Massachusetts, while taking photos of about 100 NRHP sites, User:Sswonk and I have come across the following on the ground and in conversation with the Librarian at the Quincy Historical Society, which has the complete Mass Historical Commission report on each site, including a plot map that shows the exact location of the lot on the street. The copyright status of these is uncertain, so I have not uploaded them. Some of the information on them is available [here.]


 * S. H. Barnicoat Monuments, shown in NRIS at 114 Columbia Street, is in MHC at the west corner of Columbia and Centre Streets, now a Valvoline and Duncan Donuts, visible on Bing and Google.
 * Quincy Water Company Pumping Station is shown in NRIS at 106 Penn Street, the little MHC map shows it just south of the distinctive large ell shaped building which remains. The site is occupied by a small recent garage structure, also visible on Bing and Google.
 * Winfield House was a prominent house on the main street and it is well known that it burned some time ago. Winfield House Site Quincy MA.jpg
 * Charles Marsh House, 248 President's Lane, appears in both Bing and Google aerial photos, and Bing Birdseye, but today the site is a mass of Tyvek HouseWrap. The MHC description says "Spacious lot adjoining Robert Burns Park but close to commercial Granite Street".  Too spacious and too close to commerce, apparently. The statue of Burns is in the center of the photo. Charles Marsh House Site Quincy MA.jpg
 * Solomon Nightengale House (the MHC report says "Nightingale", but that may be moot.) 429 Granite Street. Again, the little MHC map makes it easy to check to see that the street numbers haven't been changed and that the photo is of the right lot. My guess is that the original house, described on QMHAS as, "three quarter Cape Cod cottage has a facade consisting of an entrance, two windows on one side and one window on the other side and is set on a typical low granite foundation. The ridge roof is pierced by a large chimney of the period. The elegant porticoed entrance was probably added on at the beginning of the 20th century during the height of the Colonial Revival era. It is composed of two baseless fluted Doric columns supporting a pedimented roof. The slight projection of the entrance edged by pilasters frame the sidelights filled with plain stained glass set in leaded forms, an indication of an early 1900s date." was torn down and the two buildings shown here were erected in its place. It is, of course possible that it was just modified heavily (User:Sswonk found that at Edwin W. Marsh House, but why modify this house and then build an identical one next door? Question Solomon Nightengale House Quincy MA.jpg An original photo is [here.]. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  01:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
 * US Post Office Garage in Boston, destroyed: see picture. Nyttend (talk) 17:04, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * House at 14 Chestnut Street in Somerville. Per several WP visitors to the address, and confirmed by MACRIS, this structure no longer exists.  MACRIS still lists it as NRHP though.  Magic ♪piano 01:07, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Potter-O'Brian House in Waltham is demolished, per its MACRIS entry. (I've also been to the putative address.)  Magic ♪piano 18:55, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Waltham Gas Light Company is demolished (MACRIS PDF link). MACRIS has two separate entries for Waltham Gas Light Company, one a building listing, the other a district listing.  The building listing (WLT.504) does not mention the demolition, but the district listing (WLT.AL) does.  Magic ♪piano 23:08, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
 * James Swasey House in Waltham is demolished or moved. Its site houses a modern construction; there is no record of its fate in MACRIS.  Magic ♪piano 14:06, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Nathan Warren House in Waltham is demolished (per MACRIS), site houses recent constructions.  Magic ♪piano 14:06, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * House at 83 Penniman Place in Brookline was destroyed by fire (per Brookline building inspector records)  Magic ♪piano 15:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * House at 35 Temple Street in Somerville appears to have been demolished; the building there bears no resemblance to that in the nomination papers.  Magic ♪piano 15:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Town location issue

 * Norfolk Grange Hall, at 28 Rockwood Rd. in Norfolk, Massachusetts, within Norfolk County, is listed in NRIS as being in town of "Norfold" rather than town of Norfolk. doncram (talk) 06:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * batch04:19


 * Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts is a village with one Zip Code that includes parts of 3 separate jurisdictions: (1) City of Boston (Suffolk County), (2 Town of Brookline (Norfolk County) and (3) City of Newton (Middlesex County). For example:
 * Chestnut Hill Historic District &mdash; Roughly bounded by Middlesex Rd., Reservoir Ln., Denny Rd., Boylston St. and Dunster Rd. (added November 17, 1985) {mostly in Brookline, but includes small parts of Boston and Newton) clariosophic (talk) 18:58, 23 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District is a 16 mile long strip running through 7 municipalities in 3 counties of eastern Massachusetts. The article originally covered only one town. I have just revamped the text to cover all 7. What do I do with the infobox? Elkman has multiple infoboxes, but there are 2 for Natick (East and West) and none for Needham and Boston. clariosophic (talk) 13:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The Graves Light is shown on NRIS with city = Hull, Plymouth County, MA. NRIS links to the Inventory of Historic Light Stations, which shows it in Winthrop. Although it is certainly closer to either of those as the crow flies than it is to downtown Boston, The Graves is actually in Boston. see USCG quad Hull, MA. etc. Jameslwoodward (talk) 16:37, 12 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Brookwood Farm Although some of Brookwood Farm's fields are in Milton, all of the buildings, including the separately listed Old Barn are in Canton. It is listed on "Hillside Avenue". The actual name of the street in Milton is "Hillside Street", but the street changes name at the Milton-Canton border, so the mailing address of the farm would be "Blue Hill River Road, Canton, MA".  Both the Bing and Google maps show the names of the street in the two towns clearly. The town boundary runs NW-SE along the tree lined road to the east of the given coords.  Jameslwoodward (talk) 15:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noting that there are some issues with this one. I see that it is listed in NRIS in just Milton.  I wonder if there has been a street name change or if there were typos in NRIS database data entry.  Obtaining the NRHP nomination/inventory documents might clarify a lot here, such as whether the NRHP-listed part is all in one town or not.  I checked the online-available Blue Hills and Neponset River Reservations MRA, now linked from the Brookwood Farm infobox, but find no information about the place in that document.  The document is annotated to indicate it is a partial inventory only. doncram (talk) 16:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I recognize that local expertise is not a citable source, but I live immediately east of Brookwood Farm -- it's our neighbor on two sides. I noted it while making a list for a possible photography project on what looks like it might be a beautiful long weekend ... eight NRHPs missing photos within walking distance.


 * For the town name part of the issue, it is in both towns, but if you were to list it in only one, Canton would be the choice for the reasons I mentioned above. As for "Hillside Street" versus "Hillside Avenue", it's probably just carelessness on the part of the originator -- note that Old Barn which is part of the Farm, is shown correctly as Hillside Street. And, of course, the Massachusetts predilection for changing street names at town boundaries strikes home here, so if the location gets changed to Canton, the street becomes Blue Hill River Road.  Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk) 18:14, 2 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I didn't fully understand this at first. The suggested correction for NRIS is to give "Canton" as the location for Old Barn, replacing "Milton".  And to give both "Canton and Milton" as the town location for Brookwood Farm, if it is verified that the NRHP-listed part of the Farm is in both towns.  It is known by Jameslwoodward that the current farm property is in fact in both towns. doncram (talk) 23:48, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Mystic Valley Parkway Another long skinny district. Elkman's box shows Arlington.  It's actually Winchester, Medford, Arlington, Somerville, Medford, with Medford getting the most mileage.  I've just added Somerville to the article, with a note on its discussion page showing my reasoning. I've also added the other three towns to the Summary block in National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts. I'll check the other three towns' lists as well, though perhaps not tonight. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  23:15, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually the Elkman system shows it in Arlington, MA, Medford, MA, Somerville, MA, and Winchester, MA. There are four separate entries in the elkman "who has" output, if u search on "Mystic Valley", all with the same refnum.  You can then click on any one of four infoboxes, which would just show one town name within it, and you would have to manually edit the infobox to include mention of the other towns.  But that means that NRIS lists it in four towns. doncram (talk) 23:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, just noted that -- Elkman, or my connection, was slow and only Medford came up quickly and I went off to dinner before seeing the others. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 11:50, 24 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Having messed up Mystic Valley Parkway, I should be reluctant to comment on another roadway, but I'm pretty sure this is right -- I double checked Elkman's tool. NRIS shows Nahant Beach Boulevard as located in Lynn, but a look at the USGS topo suggests that at least 98% of it, probably all of it, is in Nahant -- the border between the two is at the mainland end of the isthmus that connects Nahant to the rest of the state and on which the road runs. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  15:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

So, we should probably show all of Braintree, Canton, Quincy, and Milton as the towns.... .. . . Jim. . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 22:12, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And another roadway: Blue Hills Reservation Parkways, not to be confused with Blue Hills Parkway,the former is in the Blue Hills Reservation while the latter ends at the Reservation. National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts calls out "Parts of Blue Hill Rd., Chickatawbut Rd., Hillside St., Uniquity Rd., Wampatuck Rd., and Green St".  Elkman does not produce that list, but shows Braintree as the only town in which it is located.
 * Chickatawbut Rd. is in Milton and Quincy, with maybe 400 feet in Braintree, so showing Braintree is correct, but not sufficient.
 * Hillside Street is entirely in Milton
 * Uniquity Rd. (sic, should be Unquity) is entirely in Milton
 * Green Street is in Milton and Canton
 * Wampatuck Rd. is entirely in Quincy
 * Blue Hill Road is a question. Although there are three different Blue Hill XX in the Reservation, none of them is Blue Hill Road:
 * Blue Hill River Road is a border of the Reservation in Canton.
 * Blue Hill Street is a different border of the Reservation in Milton.
 * Blue Hill Avenue runs through the Reservation in Milton and Canton.
 * I had noticed this too just now and have changed the infobox in the article. A check of all the parkway listings is probably needed. I had also noticed that Charles River Reservation Parkways is messed up. It is shown as being only in Boston but is listed in Middlesex County. --Polaron | Talk 22:44, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've just stumbled across West Roxbury Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston -- same problem, shown in Brookline, but obviously in West Roxbury (part of Boston) and maybe more. How'd you like to take on the task of looking at all of them? (or, at least let's not both do an investigation....) . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 00:09, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think I can manage that. I've done a few already although I'll probably not touch the list articles as somehow I keep getting reverted for trying to make corrections. In any case, I'll check and correct location information in all the individual parkway articles. You can probably just make sure I get all of it right once I'm done. --Polaron | Talk 15:10, 29 September 2009 (UTC)


 * NRIS-listed Great Blue Hill Weather Observatory is also NHL-designated as Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. It is located in Milton, Massachusetts according to NRIS and according to User:Jameslwoodward, while the NPS's NHL webpage for it,  here, states it is in  East Milton, Massachusetts.  Issue noted by User:Jameslwoodward, noted within List of NHLs in MA.  This is a correction for NHL webpage;  i will note at wp:NHL info issues also. doncram (talk) 15:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Doncram, I should have done this. I should add that "East Milton" is a neighborhood, not a town (in Massachusetts there are no unincorporated areas, so finding what City or Town something is in is not a matter of opinion, but one of looking at any map.) The Post Office for all of Milton, (itself an NRHP site), is in the neighborhood of East Milton and the Zip Code 02186, which covers the whole town, appears with that name in some databases. That's probably where this came from. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  15:52, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying. So the NPS NHL webpage is just wrong for stating that it is located in East Milton, which is a neigbhorhood not a town, and the observatory is not located in that neighborhood.  In Jameslwoodward's original edit summary it was noted: "Subject is about as far west in Milton as you can get". doncram (talk) 16:02, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This is OTT, but I couldn't resist -- Milton's southwestern town boundary (with Canton) actually runs across the peak of the mountain, which, according to the USGS topo, is about twenty feet west of the subject.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 16:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I like OTT. The 2004 Community Development plan for the town linked from http://www.townofmilton.org/Public_Documents/MiltonMA_BComm/PB/documents includes maps such as page 66 which show the a densely settled area at top right which is the East Milton neighborhood (although not labelled), far away from southwest corner where the observatory is. doncram (talk) 16:24, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't actually see the play on words until just now.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 17:31, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

As Polaron had pointed out (see User talk:Polaron for a fuller discussion), various of the parkways in the Boston area that extend through more than one jurisdiction are shown incorrectly on our listings and/or on NRIS. Here is the summary of all of them; note that several do not require NRIS correction:
 * Parkways


 * Note that NRIS entry for Fells Connector Parkways, Metropolitan System of Greater Boston is missing an S on one of the six "Fellsways" in its location.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 21:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Dorchester Heights Historic District is listed in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Its name is historic; it is now square in the middle of South Boston (both are neighborhoods of the City of Boston). . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  13:38, 7 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Plymouth Light is at the end of a peninsula that has its base in Duxbury, Massachusetts but the end of the peninsula is within the town limits of Plymouth, not as shown in NRIS, in Duxbury. This was first pointed out by new editor User:Duxbury Rural & Hist Soc.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 10:42, 9 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church illustrates a more general problem in Boston. Because Boston grew by accretion and does not have street numbers that run on a grid, there are often multiple locations for the same address. 380 Washington Street is one of those.  NRIS lists it in Boston, which is correct, but not helpful because if you give "380 Washington St., Boston Massachusetts" to Google Maps, the church's location comes up third.  If you use "380 Washington St., Dorchester Massachusetts", it comes up first. It's no problem in the text of the article.  As I understand our policy we can use "Dorchester" there -- as in "Dorchester, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston".  But what about the infobox and the Boston list of NRHP sites? What's our policy?. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  16:54, 23 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Old Town Bridge (Wayland, Massachusetts). The NRIS listing says "Weyland".  "Wayland" is correct. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  13:24, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Hart House and Henfield House are listed in the NRIS database as in Lynn. But according to the MACRIS database, they are both in Lynnfield. (We have them listed in Lynnfield.) --sanfranman59 (talk) 00:28, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Coordinates issues
(doncram not submitting these, as Massachusetts coords may be corrected by a different means)
 * The Eber Sherman Farm in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, which is at a latitude of 42º42', was listed as being on the equator — a trifle far south, if you ask me, since the NRHP doesn't track items in Ecuador :-)
 * Go a little east to Barnstable County, Massachusetts, for the Thomas Atwood House, which has coords that place it in the Department of Caquetá in Colombia, again on the equator. Nyttend (talk) 13:23, 20 January 2009 (UTC) --
 * The original nomination form - prior to the adoption of UTM coordinates by the NRHP - gives four corner point coordinates for the property, all beginning 41 deg. 57 min. north and 70 deg. 3 min west. This defines a large polygon off Bound Brook Island Road. The actual House (part of a complex of buildings known in the Massachusetts State Register as the "Atwood-Higgins Complex Historic District", rather than the Historic Name used by the NRHP, the Thomas Atwood House). The house is at 41°57′16.39″N 70°3′32.6″W computed from Google Earth against maps in the 1973 nomination file at the Massachusetts Historical Commission. RDescartes61 (talk) 19:16, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Address issues

 * The boundary increase to Cambridge's Harvard Square Historic District is listed as being "roughly bounded by Harvard & Massachusetts Aves. and Mt. Auburn, Winthrop, Bennett, Story, and Church Sts."; it's actually Harvard St., not Harvard Ave. Nyttend (talk) 17:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Boylston St. in this item changed to John F. Kennedy St. (street renamed). Hertz1888 (talk) 18:04, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The Harvard Houses Historic District is listed as "Roughly bounded by Mt. Auburn & Grant & Cowperwaite Sts., Banks St. & Putman Ave., the Memorial River, & Boyleston St.": correct Memorial River to Memorial Drive and change Boyleston to Boylston. Nyttend (talk) 17:02, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Boylston St. in this item changed to John F. Kennedy St. (street renamed). Hertz1888 (talk) 18:04, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Harvard Square Subway Kiosk. Boylston St. in this item changed to John F. Kennedy St. (st. renamed) Hertz1888 (talk) 18:04, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Brookwood Farm see above -- town location issues


 * Milton Centre Historic District is shown as bounded by "Readsdale Road". This should be "Reedsdale" -- see Google, Bing maps, street signs, town records, etc.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:36, 30 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston are shown as "William J. Day Boulevard, Columbia Rd. between Farragut Rd and Kosciuszko Cir., and Old Colony Ave. between Pacuska Ave." There is no Pacuska Ave. in Boston. There is a Pacuska Circle. If you go to 42.328°N, -71.05°W on Google satellite maps with labels, you will see a large roughly oval area with half a dozen baseball diamonds and other fields.  The circle at its northwest corner is Pacuska Circle (there's a plaque in its center).  There is a statue of Kosciuszko in the center of the circle at the southwest corner. So, the location should read, "William J. Day Boulevard, Columbia Rd. between Farragut Rd and Kosciuszko Cir., and Old Colony Ave. between Pacuska Circle and Kosciuszko Circle." Or, since Old Colony Avenue doesn't actually go to Kosciusko Circle -- it ends just west of it, at a lower level, you could say "...and Old Colony Ave. from Pacuska Circle to its southern end." The point of the restrictions is to eliminate the portion of Columbia Road that goes west from Kosciuszko Circle and the portion of Old Colony Avenue north of Pacuska Circle. Day Boulevard is included for its whole length. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  16:43, 16 October 2009 (UTC)


 * C. Henry Kimball House is shown at 295 Washington St.. It's actually 295 Washington Ave., see Google, Bing etc.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  20:13, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Church of Christ (Revere, Massachusetts) is shown at 265 Beech Street. It's actually 265 Beach Street,see Google, Bing etc.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 20:13, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Christ Church (Quincy, Massachusetts) is shown at 14 Quincy Street. There is both a Quincy Street and a Quincy Avenue in Quincy, MA, but the Christ Church, Quincy web site shows the address as 12 Quincy Avenue.  Google StreetView shows Quincy Street as a residential street with no church near the address.  The Quincy Historical and Architectural Survey, which strongly recommends NRHP status, shows the 12 Quincy Avenue address. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  02:49, 22 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Two minor corrections:
 * Quincy Savings Bank is shown in NRIS at 1370 Hancock Street. It's at 1372. Quincy Savings Bank Quincy MA 02.jpg.
 * Elks Building is shown at 1218-1222 Hancock St. It's at 1212 Hancock Street.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  01:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3 are shown at 25 and 115 Water Street, Charlestown, MA. Water Street was renamed Constitution Rd. a while ago. Also, IIRC, one of these burned 10-15 years ago.  I'll check when I try to photograph it.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  16:28, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Another minor one. Harrison Loring House is shown at "789 E. Broadway St." Like most Broadways, there's no "Street" at the end. . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:21, 7 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Luna (tugboat) is listed at "NDC Pier". There are two issues.  It should read "MDC Pier" -- at the time of her nomination she was owned by the Metropolitan District Commission, which gave its initials to her home pier. The second issue is that it's unlikely she will be based there after she returns from a refit elsewhere.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:10, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Bunker Hill School is shown at 65 Baldwin Street, Boston, Massachusetts. It's across the street at 68 Baldwin Street. Probably a typo.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  12:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Harrison Square Historic District listed as "location= Bounded by MBTA Braintree line embankment, Park, Everett, Freeport, Mill, Asland, Blanche Sts., Victory Rd.".  Should be "Ashland Street" (see map, there is no "Asland" St, etc. in Boston).. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  16:47, 18 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Bowditch School is listed at 80-82 Greene St. Sometimes we add an "e" in Ye Olde New England, but not here.  It's "Green St.". . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  12:17, 20 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Vermont Building According to User:75.106.174.224, who lives there, the correct address is 10 Thacher Street, not 8-12 Thacher Street as shown in NRIS.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 15:02, 26 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Martin_House_(Seekonk,_Massachusetts). Street address given as 940 Court St. in NRIS is apparently 940 County St., suggested by this edit and by this edit by Faolin42. --doncram (talk) 12:42, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, County Street is the name given in Google maps for the street where the coordinates in the article point to, so the correction seems to be correct. --doncram (talk) 12:54, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * David_Lane_House. Street address is listed at 147 North Road in Bedford, Massachusetts on the David_Lane_House page.  But I bicycled by, and the house at 137 North Road is actually labeled as the "David Lane House 1781". And "Home of David Lane, Fifer, Militia Company, April 19, 1775".  So I added a picture of the house at 137 North Road to the David_Lane_House page, and noted the address on the talk page.  Faolin42 (talk) 13:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Edward Gardner House. Listed at 89 Cambridge Street, Winchester, appears to now be Zero Gardner Place, courtesy of a small subdivision.  Magic ♪piano 19:54, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Oak Knoll (Winchester, Massachusetts). Address is listed as 39 Oak Knoll.  Google Maps incorrectly shows a street named Oak Knoll, that is actually a continuation of Sanborn Street.  This property is probably now numbered as 23 Brooks Street; its driveway appears to be the continuation of what Google Maps labels as Oak Knoll after crossing Brooks Street.  The photograph at the MACRIS entry for Oak Knoll is consistent with this idea; I believe the house pictured is the one now at 23 Brooks. (I'll find out for sure on my next ride in that direction.)  Magic ♪piano 19:54, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * C. A. Sawyer House (Second) in Newton is incorrectly listed in NRIS. Both it and the Arthur F. Luke House are listed in NRIS at 221 Prince Street. MACRIS lists the NRHP-listed Luke house at 221 Prince Street (and a second non-listed Luke house at 43 Prince), and the Sawyer house at 86 Waban Ave.  The MACRIS listings for both properties have photos and plot plans.  Magic ♪piano 16:01, 27 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hassanamisco Reservation in Grafton: Address in NPS Recent Listings is 80 Brighton Hill Rd. It should be 80 Brigham Hill Rd. --sanfranman59 (talk) 19:17, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Pittsfield & North Adams Passenger Station and Baggage & Express House has its address listed as 12, Pleasant. In fact, the station building(s) is 10, Pleasant, and No. 12 is an unrelated building, which is certainly not a station building.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:21, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

architect, builder, engineer issues

 * There's no real place for this, but it should be noted that NRIS frequently (tens, maybe hundreds of times) misspells the family name of Frederick Law Olmsted and his sons as "Olmstead". Given the wide-spread influence of the man and the firm of landscape architects, this is unfortunate. Redirects are in place, but we should make an effort to use the correct spelling in articles.. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  13:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Butler Flats Light Station -- the name of the architect is given as "Smith,F. Hopkinton". Should be "Hopkinson", see Francis Hopkinson Smith. . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  15:49, 15 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Wollison-Shipton Building; Added to NRHP: September 30, 1982; NRHP Reference#: 82001899; Wollison-Shipton Building is a historic building at 142-156 North Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  It is listed in the National Register as being designed by "Wilson,Neil Henry", but what is probably meant is architect H. Neil Wilson of Pittsfield, who designed other NRHP-listed buildings as well in Ohio and in Massachusetts. --doncram (talk) 01:17, 12 February 2010 (UTC)


 * William Russell Allen House, refnum 80000427; 359 East St. Pittsfield MA; architect listed as "Wilson,H. Neil" should also be H. Neill Wilson. --doncram (talk) 01:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Franklin School (Lexington, Massachusetts). NRIS states architect as "Kilham, Hopkins & Greely"; it should be "Greeley" not "Greely".  Architect firm and info about Greeley covered at Kilham & Hopkins. -- do  ncr  am  23:36, 26 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Willy's Overland Block. NRIS states architect as "Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Hordhoff";  it should be "Nordhoff" not "Hordhoff".  The architect article is at Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff.  The Massachusetts state system spells it correctly, here. -- do  ncr  am  18:40, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Other issues

 * NRHP probably incorrectly lists the date for King Philip's Hill as 1685. This should probably be 1675, during King Philip's War. The MACRIS listing] shows 1675.  Magic ♪piano 15:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * NRHP appears to have two separate listings for Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester, one at "Eastern Point Boulevard" (NRIS 76000246, 04/26/1976), the other at "75 Eastern Point Boulevard" (NRIS 03000641, 05/27/2003).  Magic ♪piano 02:41, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The Pillar House, formerly in Newton, was deconstructed and rebuilt in Lincoln. (See article for citation.) I have not checked MACRIS for relevant entries, but its demise was well known due to its visibility.  Magic ♪piano 14:06, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Middlesex Canal Historic and Archaeological District
On National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, there is an entry entitled Middlesex Canal Historic and Archaeological District. This is actually a pipe-link to Middlesex Canal, which does not contain any NRIS identifying number (or use the NRHP infobox). There is a listing in NRIS entitled "Middlesex Canal", which appears to have been entered in 1972. In MACRIS, there is a listing for a district entitled "Middlesex Canal Historic and Archaeological" that says this district was listed in 11-2009. There is also a separate listing entitled "Middlesex Canal". There is a NPS filing date 10-2009 indicating a pending district listing, #09000936, entitled "Middlesex Canal Historic and Archaeological". This number does not return anything in NRHP Focus, while the Middlesex Canal is listed with #72000117.

Something (or things) appears to be awry here, but I'm not sure what.  Magic ♪piano 15:41, 3 April 2010 (UTC)