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New Bedford Historic District. / 41.63528°N 70.92417°W / 41.63528; -70.92417. The New Bedford Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, west of the community's waterfront. During the 19th century, when the city was the center of the American whaling industry, this was its ...
Added to NRHP. August 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.
List of Registered Historic Places in New Bedford, Massachusetts . / 41.647778°N 70.931389°W / 41.647778; -70.931389 ( Acushnet Heights Historic District) / 41.601944°N 70.898333°W / 41.601944; -70.898333 ( Butler Flats Light) / 41.631944°N 70.951944°W / 41.631944; -70.951944 ( Buttonwood Park Historic ...
New Bedford, Massachusetts. / 41.63611°N 70.93472°W / 41.63611; -70.93472. New Bedford ( Massachusett: Accushnet) [ 3] is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast region. Up through the 17th century, the area was the territory of the Wampanoag ...
August 11, 1976. The William Rotch Jr. House, now the Rotch–Jones–Duff House and Garden Museum, is a National Historic Landmark at 396 County Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the United States. The three families whose names are attached to it were all closely tied to the city's nineteenth-century dominance of the whaling industry.
1996. New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS). The park commemorates the heritage of the world's preeminent whaling port during the nineteenth century. Established in 1996, the park encompasses 34 acres (fourteen ...
Buttonwood Park Zoo. / 41.62996; -70.95273. The Buttonwood Park Zoo, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a zoo located in the center of Buttonwood Park. Opened in 1894, it is the third-oldest zoo in New England and the 12th-oldest zoo in the United States. [ 5] Located on a 7 acres (2.8 ha) campus, the zoo is owned and operated by the ...
The Orpheum Theater is an old theatre and movie house located at 1005 Water Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts USA, originally named the Majestic Opera House. History [ edit ] The building, designed by Louis E. Destremps , was constructed by the French Sharpshooter's Club of New Bedford to house both a ballroom and armed shooting range.