County Street Historic District Slideshow

To walk through the County Street Historic District of New Bedford, Massachusetts is to enter into a three-dimensional textbook of 19th-century American residential architecture. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the district features a treasure trove of 19th-century houses designed by such prominent architects as Richard Upjohn, Russell Warren, and Peabody and Stearns, as well as local architects from New Bedford. This month’s Architectural Ambler visits four houses in the County Street Historic District, each one representative of a different 19th-century American architectural style.