<p>Lawson Tower is a historic tower built in the style of a European castle turret. It is located off First Parish Road in Scituate Center, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1902 to enclose a steel water tank, it is a major local landmark. The Scituate Water Company stopped using the tank in 1988. The tower is listed as both an American Water Landmark and in the National Register of Historic Places. It has become a popular tourist site, featuring sweeping views of the South Shore, Old Scituate Light, Minot&#39;s Ledge Light and the nearby First Trinitarian Congregational Church.</p><br>
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<p>The tower is a steel frame structure standing 153 ft in height, its tank and steel superstructure enclosed in a stylistically eclectic wooden shell. It is shingled to the top of the enclosed tank, where there is a band of bracketing. Above this are two circular chambers, one to house bells and the other a clock. The tower is covered by a conical roof.</p><br>
<p>The steel water tank was built in 1900 by the Scituate Water Company, the local municipal water supplier. At the same time, Thomas W. Lawson, a wealthy Boston businessman, was building his "Dreamwold" estate next door. Upset by the view of the utilitarian tank, Lawson negotiated with the company to enclose it. Lawson commissioned the Meneely Bell Foundry of West Troy, New York, to install ten bells at the top of the tower. These bells range in size from three hundred to three thousand pounds. This chime system was originally designed to be played either from the bell room eighty feet above the ground or on the console of the clavier room.</p><br>
<p>The tower is equipped with an internal sprinkler system, after a similar wooden water tower in East Boston was destroyed by fire in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Benjamin James House is a historic First Period house, now a museum, at 301 Driftway in Scituate, Massachusetts. The oldest part of this 2-1/2 story timber frame house was built c. 1700 by Captain Benjamin James. During the 18th century it was enlarged to its present five-bay saltbox configuration. After James&#39; death in 1788, the house was used by the town as a "pest house", isolating smallpox victims there.</p><br>
<p>The house is now home of the Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum, owned and maintained by the Scituate Historical Society. There are exhibits of the mossing industry, ship building on the North River, shipwrecks, life saving. It is open Sunday afternoons, 1–4 p.m. Sept through June. Sat and Sun, July and August.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Plympton Village Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Plympton, Massachusetts. It is a roughly linear district, running along Main Street  between Palmer Road and Mayflower Road. There are twenty buildings in the district, most of which are residential. The focal point of the district, however, is the town green, around which the town&#39;s main civic buildings are arrayed. The green was laid out in 1702, but the oldest civic building  was built in the 1850s, a period in which many of the houses were also built. The oldest building in the district is the Reverend Ezra Sampson House at 255 Main Street, which was built in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Glenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery northeast of Parker Street and Great Road in Maynard, Massachusetts. It is one of the first municipal creations of the town after its incorporation in 1871, and is the resting place of many of its early and prominent residents, including Amory Maynard, founder of the Assabet Woolen Mill and namesake of the community. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
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<p>Glenwood Cemetery is located at the northeast corner of Parker Street (Massachusetts Route 27) and Great Road (Massachusetts Route 117), a short way south of the town center. It has entrance is on Great Road, roughly midway between Parker Street and Old Mill Road, and on Parker Street, nearly opposite Walker Street. The cemetery has two distinct sections, reflecting its growth over time.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the cemetery is 8 acre in size, and was purchased by the town in 1871, the year of its incorporation out of portions of Sudbury and Stow. This area was laid out in a version of the style of the then-fashionable rural cemetery movement, with a circular lane at the entrance and a series of parallel lanes behind. At the center of the circle there was originally a gazebo, which was to be a focal point of the cemetery. It was destroyed in the New England Hurricane of 1938. The main gate (image) is not the original. It replace an earlier cast iron gate in 1928. About two dozen burials pre-date the official creation of Glenwood Cemetery, suggesting that it was functioning as a privately owned cemetery before the land was purchased by the town. East of this original portion is a section laid out in the 1930s, using labor funded by the Works Progress Administration. It has a series of concentric lanes in a roughly ovoid shape, and is joined to the old section by a single lane.</p><br>
<p>The Maynard family crypt is a prominent feature on the north side of Glenwood Cemetery, within sight of passers-by on Route 27. Amory Maynard (1804-1890) started a woolen mill on the Assabet River in 1846. In 1871 the village of mill workers and other residents officially became the Town of Maynard. The crypt is an imposing earth-covered mound with a granite facade facing the road. The mound is 90 feet across and about 12 feet tall. The stonework facade is approximately 30 feet across. The ceiling of the crypt has a glass skylight surmounted by an exterior cone of iron grillwork. The granite lintel above the door reads "MAYNARD." Chiseled above the lintel are the year 1880 and the Greek letters Alpha and Omega entwined with a Fleur-de-lis Cross. Amory Maynard, his wife, Mary, their third son, Harlan, and nineteen other descendants were interred in the crypt. Oldest son Lorenzo Maynard and his family were buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Second son William was buried at Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, along with his wife and four of their seven children.</p><br>
<p>Fuller-Dauphin Estate, is a historic house and former estate known as "The Maples" located at 145 School Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1872 for local Judge William Eddy Fuller and designed by local architect E.C. Chandler. It is a 2-1/2 story central hall plan Italianate style house with spacious proportions and disciplined ornament. The house later passed to Fuller&#39;s daughter who married Henry Dauphin. It remained in the Dauphin family until 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. At the time, the property was one of the last large undivided estates in the city. However, the rear of the site has since been split off with an apartment complex added. The main house has been converted into offices.</p><br>
<p>The Francis L. Gardner House is a historic house at 1129 Gardner&#39;s Neck Road in Swansea, Massachusetts. The Colonial Revival house was built in 1903 for Francis Gardner, owner of a market garden farm on the site, and a local town selectman.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Francis L. Gardner House is located on the west side of Gardner&#39;s Neck Road, roughly opposite Wilder Street. It is a roughly square 2-1/2 story wood-framed house, with a hip roof pierced by hip-roof dormers. It has a single-story porch extending across the front, supported by grouped columns, with a dentillated cornice and balcony rail above. A pair of brick chimneys have Tudor decoration. The main entrance door has leaded glass sidelight and transom windows. The interior has high-quality oak woodwork, and an oak fireplace with Italian tile. There is a bay window above the main entrance, and a two-story bay on the side.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by Fall River architect Edward I. Marvell for Francis L. Gardner, a descendant of the Gardners for whom Gardners Neck is named. Gardners father Leland was a successful market gardner (a significant local industry), providing fresh produce to passenger ships at Fall River. This business was operated by Francis and his brother Chester until about 1925, when they began selling land off for development. Francis Gardner served as a town selectman for many years.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Higgins-Hodgeman House is a historic house located at 19 Cedar Street in Taunton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1880 for L. B. Higgins, a merchant who operated a dry goods business downtown. The 2-1/2 story frame house is considered one of the best examples of Stick style architecture in the city. It is roughly rectangular, with a hip roof whose cornice is decorated with Stick style brackets. A gabled section projects slightly on the left side of the front facade, with a projecting bay window at the first floor. The right side of the front is taken up by a hip-roof porch, supported by turned posts, and with a decorative valence. It has retained much of its original wood details and clapboard siding.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hodges House is a historic house at 41 Worcester Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it is a well-preserved example of a Greek Revival Cape style house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hodges House is located in a rural residential area of northwestern Taunton, on the northeast side of Worcester Street a short way south of its junction with Norton Road. It is a 1-1/2 story Cape style house, with a side gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a slightly off-center central chimney. The front is five bays wide, with two sash windows on either side of the entrance. The main entry is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and is topped by an entablature. The building&#39;s corners are also pilastered, rising to an entablature that extends across the front at the eave. A 1-1/2 story ell extends to the right, set back from the main block. It also has a central chimney, and a recessed porch in its left side, supported by a square column. At the back of the porch is a secondary entrance on the left, and two sash windows to the right. To the right of the porch is a single sash window, set near the building corner.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1850, probably for someone in the Hodges family, who were major landowners in the area. It has retained virtually all of its original Greek Revival elements, and is one of the best preserved examples of this style in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Hopewell Mills District is a historic district on Bay Street and Albro Avenue in Taunton, Massachusetts. The site is associated with the Hopewell Mills, one of the earliest textile mills in the city, established in 1818 .</p><br>
<p>The historic district contains a number of early 19th century brick mill worker tenement homes and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was established in 1818 by a group of industrialists led by Charles Richmond, in association with Samuel Crocker and Silas Shepard. The site previously contained a nail-cutting mill owned by Samuel Leonard, built in the 1780s. Crocker and Richmond first built a cotton mill, one hundred feet in length. The basement included a machine shop and nail factory. A second cotton mill was added in 1821. In 1823, the mills were merged into the stock of the Taunton Manufacturing Company, which operated the mills until 1843.</p><br>
<p>After the bankruptcy of Taunton Manufacturing Company, the mills were acquired by Cyrus Lothrop who controlled the site until his accidental death in 1854. The property then passed to Charles Albro, who had been superintendent of the mills. Much of the village that exists today dates from the period of Albro&#39;s ownership (1854-1888). In 1888, Albro sold the mill to the investment firm of L. Beebe & Co. of Boston, who operated it until 1904, when the mill was destroyed by fire. The ruins remained in place for many years.</p><br>
<p>The Hopewell School is a historic school building located on Monroe Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. It was built in 1914, and designed by the Boston firm of Kilham & Hopkins in the Renaissance Revival style. The school replaced a previous school of the same name located around the corner on Bay Street in the Whittenton section of the city.</p><br>
<p>The school is a three story brick building, with terra cotta and stone trim elements. It has projecting end bays, with its entrance in a central section that projects only slightly. The entrance is trimmed in terra cotta, while windows have limestone trim, with those on the second floor sporting keystone lintels. The building is capped by a limestone cornice, above which stands a brick parapet. Some of its windows have been filled in with brick. The building was constructed utilizing the most up-to-date fireproof construction methods and materials known at the time, by the Boston engineering firm of Richardson & Hale. The bricks were locally sourced from Taunton brick yards.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, for its architectural significance as a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture, and for its role in the development of the city&#39;s public education systems, reflecting changing trends in educational architecture.</p><br>
<p>Hortonville is a village in the town of Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The part of the village on Locust Street from Oak Street to Hortonville Rd. makes up the Hortonville Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
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<p>Hortonville is located in northern Swansea, near its border with Rehoboth. Locust Street is the principal roadway through the area, running roughly east-west. The area was first settled in the 18th century by the Hale, Martin, and Eddy families. These families built homes on farmland they owned in the western end of the village. The eastern end of the village, along the Cole River, became the site of several gristmills, lending the village the name "Swansea Factory." In the 1830s, a school, church, and Universalist hall were built in the village. Nathaniel Horton settled in the area in 1856 and helped the village gain its own post office, which was named Hortonville in his honor. After 1900, industrial development in the area stalled, and the village became a residential and agricultural area.</p><br>
<p>As a result of this development pattern, the area has a well-preserved concentration of late 18th to late 19th-century housing. Its oldest house, 397 Locust Street, was built in 1736, and is a typical Georgian house. Other examples of mid-18th century housing exist, but most have been updated, typically in the 19th century with Greek Revival styling. A small cluster of Federal period houses stand at the eastern end of Locust Street and on Maiden Lane. The only major non-residential building is the former Hortonville School (Greek Revival, c. 1838).</p><br>
<p>The Hornbine School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Built in 1862 and operated until 1937, it is the best-preserved rural schoolhouse in the town. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and now serves as a local history museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hornbine School is located in southern Rehoboth, on the west side of Hornbine Road, opposite Baker Street and the Hornbine Baptist Church. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a brick chimney at the rear. The front facade, facing east, is three bays symmetrically arranged, with the entrance at the center and sash windows on either side. The side walls have four windows, irregularly placed.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse was built in 1862, and is the best-preserved period schoolhouse in the town. Originally one of fifteen district schools (it was district #10), it remained in use even as the town began consolidating its district schools in the 1920s, and finally closed in 1937. It was afterward converted for use as a private residence, and eventually fell into disrepair. It was acquired by the non-profit Hornbine School Association in 1968, which now operates it as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>Sachem Rock Farm is a historic farm at 355 Plymouth Street in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The farm location is important for a variety of reasons. Its earliest historical association is with the Wampanoag people, who are known to have used the area, particularly around Sachem Rock, a granite oucrop that is the property&#39;s high point, prior to European contact. Sachem Rock itself is historically significant as the site of a meeting in 1649 between English settlers from the Plymouth Colony, including Myles Standish, with the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit. In this meeting the colonists purchased rights to a large tract of land, including East and West Bridgewater, Bridgewater, and Brockton.</p><br>
<p>The land around Sachem Rock was settled by 1665, with a farm and gristmill nearby on the Satucket River, and has seen agricultural uses ever since. The oldest buildings to survive are a complex of barns and other outbuildings built c. 1870 by Thomas Hewitt. The Hewitt farmhouse, built in 1869, burned down in 1926, and was replaced by the present two-story Colonial Revival wood frame house by Henry Moorhouse. The property was purchased by the Town of East Bridgewater in 1998, and is now open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It is expected to yield archaeologically significant finds concerning its pre-contact uses, as well as the sites of houses, outbuildings, and industrial mills from the colonial period through the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Hanover Center Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Hanover, Massachusetts. Established in 1721, the town center includes the town hall, library, and church, as well as its first cemetery and the c. 1700 Stetson House, one of its oldest buildings. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Hanover was settled around 1700, originally as part of Scituate. Much of its land had been awarded to Cornet Robert Stetson in 1634, and it was his son Benjamin who probably built the house c. 1700 standing on the south side of the town center. Enlarged about 1716, it was here that early meetings were held that led to the town&#39;s incorporation in 1727. In that year, the town cemetery was laid out, and its first meeting house was built, where the present First Congregational Church (built 1863) stands. Over the 19th and early 20th centuries, the center acquired the trappings of a modest New England town center, including its town hall and library.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes seven properties located around the junction of Hanover Street (Massachusetts Route 139) with Main and Silver Streets, near the geographic center of the town. On the south side of Hanover Street stand (from east to west), the Stetson House, now a museum of the local historical society, the Curtis Free Library (1907, Federal Revival), and the Italianate town hall (1863). The First Congregational Church occupies a prominent location on what is now an island surrounded by the three roadways, and the cemetery is located to its north. East of the church is the Colonial Revival Sylvester School, built in 1927 as the town&#39;s first public high school. West of the church stands its parsonage house, built about 1855.</p><br>
<p>The Stetson House is a historic house at Hanover Street in Hanover, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story frame house was built c. 1716 by Samuel "Drummer" Stetson and was occupied by the Stetson family until at least the 1860s. During the 19th century the family opened the house for religious services after the church burned down.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>In the Common room there is a large fireplace (one of six in the house) and a Yule log that was lit for good luck on Christmas but was never allowed to burn all the way. At the church, if you fell asleep a person would tickle you with a feather attached to a tithing rod. It was above the fireplace. A grandfather clock made by John Bailey and given to the Stetson house was too big to fit in the house so they had to cut a depression in the floor. The mother Stetson sometimes baked pies in the deep oven and at about 4:00pm called the children to supper.</p><br>
<p>People donated furniture for the Music Room. Also in the Music room there is a portrait of John Barstow and his wife Betsy Ellen. Four front windows have special glass, each with 24 panes. The dining room is not used often, only on special occasions like Christmas or Thanksgiving.</p><br>
<p>The doors between the rooms were made crooked on purpose so that they would close by themselves and not let the heat out. Most of the rooms were not heated and foot warmers were used in the winter.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and included in the Hanover Center Historic District in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Cushing Homestead is a historic house at 210 East Street in Hingham, Massachusetts. The home is a -story rear saltbox, and has traces of both 17th-century English style as well as later 18th-century Georgian. The two rooms that originally made up the house look much today as they likely did before the house was later enlarged.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1678 by town clerk and magistrate Daniel Cushing of Bachelors Row for his son Peter Cushing, born in 1646. Peter Cushing later operated a mill on land across from the home. The home is one of Hinghams oldest and was added to the National Historic Register in 1973. It has also been designated a Massachusetts Historic Landmark. The house sits on a ten-acre lot.</p><br>
<p>The white clapboard structure centers on a five-bay facade that faces south. Inside, the house has sponge painting believed to have been done applied before 1700, as well as an enormous original working fireplace. The property of the Cushing Homestead includes a barn, corncrib and a forge. Also on the property are the ancient mill site and dam, a former Native American fishing hole, old stone walls and markers, and a large hayfield &ndash; all speaking to Hingham&#39;s early agricultural beginnings.</p><br>
<p>"It is probably one of the most important homesteads in Hingham, beautifully maintained inside and out,’’ says Hingham-based architectural historian Monique Lehner.</p><br>
<p>The propertys barn, said to be the oldest in the United States, is constructed of timber that originally was part of Hinghams first meeting house, replaced by the Old Ship Church in 1681. The barn is a shingle-covered structure in a pitched roof style, and has ornamental red trim. The house has been occupied for over three centuries by descendants in the male line of the original builder, the son of Puritan Matthew Cushing, who arrived in Hingham from Norfolk, England, in 1638.</p><br>
<p>Among the Cushing family members who have occupied the home since it was built was Capt. Peter Cushing (1741&ndash;1783), grandson and namesake of the first owner. A selectman and constable of Hingham, Capt. Cushing commanded a company of troops during the Revolutionary War under fellow townsman General Benjamin Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>An elm tree on the property, a local landmark for years, was famous as the place where pastor John Brown preached to a group of Minutemen from Cohasset in 1775. The soldiers afterwards took part in the Siege of Boston under Col. (later Brigadier General) John Greaton.</p><br>
<p>The Rockland Memorial Library is the public library of Rockland, Massachusetts. It is located at 382 Union Street, in a Carnegie-funded Classical Revival building, which was built in 1903 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The library features several community oriented activities, such as raffles, book-release parties, and "Art in the Rotunda".</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Rockland Memorial Library is set in the center of Rockland, at the southwest corner of Union and Belmont Streets. It is a single-story masonry structure, with a foundation that is fully exposed at the rear of the sloping lot. Its walls are red brick laid in stretcher bond, with terra cotta trim. Trim elements include a water table separating the basement and first floor, corner quoining, pilasters that flank the entrance, and window surrounds. The building has a roughly cross-shaped plan, with narrow projecting sections to the front and rear center, and wider wings to either side that originally housed reading rooms. The front-facing projection houses the main entrance, which is slightly recessed, and flanked by Ionic columns and square pilasters, with a modillioned gable pediment above.</p><br>
<p>Rockland&#39;s first documented library was a private circulating collection established in 1833, when it was still part of Abington. This collection was taken over by the town (separated from Abington in 1874) in 1878, and was housed in a commercial building at Union and Church Streets that was destroyed by fire in 1890, taking part of the collection with it. Although funds were raised in the 1890s for a permanent home for the library, its construction was only made possible by a grant of $12,500 from Andrew Carnegie in 1902. The present building was completed in 1903 to a design by the Boston architectural firm Maclean & Wright.</p><br>
<p>The Rockland Almshouse is a historic almshouse at 198 Spring Street in Rockland, Massachusetts. The large -story L-shaped building was built in 1876, and served as a communal poor house until 1979. It is a rare well-preserved example of a 19th-century almshouse. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is currently used as an educational facility.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The almshouse is located south of Rockland&#39;s village center, on the east side of Spring Street, a major north-south artery in the southern part of the town. The main building is an L-shaped -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and foundation of brick and rubblestone. The east–west portion of the L has a single-story hip-roof porch extending on its southern facade, with original turned posts and balustrade. This facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance at the center bay. The west-facing gable end is three bays wide, with two sash windows in the gable, three windows on the first level, and two windows flanking a modern emergency exit on the second. The north–south portion of the building presents five bays to the west, although they are not symmetrical.</p><br>
<p>The town of Rockland was separated from Abington in 1874, and the need for the almshouse was apparently recognized soon afterward, for the first portion of this building, the east–west section, was built in 1876. The north–south wing was added in 1899, to provide an infirmary. The almshouse was closed in 1979 after more than 100 years of operation. The building has been rehabilitated, and now houses the North River Collaborative, and educational organization for children and young adults with disabilities.</p><br>
<p>The South Hingham Historic District is a historic district roughly along Main St., from Cushing St. to Tower Brook Road in Hingham, Massachusetts. This area of Main Street is predominantly residential, and is distinctive for its boulevard-like character, which was envisioned in town planning documents as early as the late 17th century. A significant feature of the area is the presence of conservation land behind the properties on much of this stretch of Main Street, which has effectively throttled large-scale development. These properties include the Jacob Meadow, Mildred Cushing Woods, and Crooked Meadow River Area. The oldest structure in the district is the 1650 Edward Wilder House at 597 Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Chubbuck Jr. House is a historic house at 1191 Main Street in Hingham, Massachusetts. Built in 1778, it is the best-preserved three-quarter Cape style house in the town, and is further noted for its long association with locally important Chubbuck and Gardner families. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Chubbuck House is set on the west side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 228), a short way north of Whiting Street in southern Hingham. The house is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a main block and a series of discreet additions to the rear. The main block is four bays wide (instead of the more common five, hence three-quarters the number of windows), with the entrance in the left center bay. It has a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding, and rests on a granite foundation. Its windows are set close the eave, and are, like the entrance, simply framed. The interior retains a substantial amount of original detail, including plaster and woodwork, and an original beehive oven in the kitchen fireplace.</p><br>
<p>The land on which the house was built in 1778 by Thomas Chubbuck Jr., a farmer and American Revolutionary War soldier who was descended from Thomas Chubbuck (d. 1676), one of Hinghams first settlers. The house is the only one in Hingham known to be built by one of Chubbucks descendants, and is one of only two three-quarter Capes from the period (out of more than 100 Cape style houses in the town). It remained in the family until 1850, when it was sold to Nancy Whiton Gardner. The Gardners, also descended from an early Hingham family, retained ownership of the property until 1960.</p><br>
<p>Hull Shore Drive and Nantasket Avenue are a historic coastal parkway in Hull, Massachusetts. Nantasket Avenue, designated as part of Route 228, is the main road through the town of Hull. Hull Shore Drive is a short segment of the road, near the Nantasket Beach Reservation at the southern end of the Hull peninsula. A 1.25 mi section of the roads  was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Route description</h2><br>
<p>Nantasket Avenue begins in Hingham and Cohasset, at a four-way junction with Rockland Street (west), Jerusalem Road (east), and Hull Street (south). Hull Street and Nantasket Avenue are designated Massachusetts Route 228, and the road forms the town line between Hingham and Cohasset until it crosses Straits Pond Dam into Hull just north of the junction. It proceeds generally north, passing through Hull&#39;s hilly southern section before reaching its peninsular portion. It is flanked on its eastern side by Nantasket Beach until it reaches a junction with Hull Shore Drive, marking the end of Route 228. At that point George Washington Boulevard runs southwest, and Hull Shore Drive and Nantasket Avenue begin a stretch where Hull Shore Drive is one-way heading north and Nantasket Avenue is one-way heading south, with Hull Shore Drive to the east. At Water Street, near the northern end of the Nantasket Beach Reservation, Hull Shore Drive ends, and the northbound lanes are marked Nantasket Avenue as well. The divided road comes to an end at Phipps Street, and Nantasket Avenue continues north, up the central spine of the Hull Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The road next skirts around the southwestern part of the hill Point Allerton neighborhood, before turning west, following the bend in the peninsula near the Hull Yacht Club. After a narrow stretch of the peninsula, it skirts around the north side of Telegraph Hill on which Fort Revere is located, before reaching its end at a three-way junction with Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Frederic C. Adams Public Library is a historic library building at 33 Summer Street in Kingston, Massachusetts. Designed by Joseph Everett Chandler , a major proponent of the Colonial Revival style, the library was built in 1898 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The building ceased operation as a public library in December 1994, when the town opened the new Kingston Public Library at 6 Green Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Adams Library building is located in Kingston&#39;s village center, on the east side of Summer Street (Massachusetts Route 3A) at its junction with Green Street. It is a 1-1/2 story masonry structure, with a gabled roof and walls of brick with stone trim. The main facade is five bays wide, with a dentillated cornice and a stringcourse of stone at the top of the windows and entry. The entrance is framed by wide sidelight windows and sheltered by a four-column Corinthian portico. Windows are set in recessed panels with splayed keystone lintels and a half-round blind arch above.</p><br>
<p>The Kingston Public Library&#39;s organizational history dates to 1871, when the Kingston Library Association was founded. Its collection was held in a local retail establishment, and in 1890 fundraising began for the construction of a dedicated facility. Frederic C. Adams was a native of Kingston, who owned a local stockyard and slaughterhouse. On his death in 1874 he left $5,000 to the town for the construction of a library. The library was completed in 1898 to a design by Joseph Chandler of Plymouth. An addition was made to the rear in 1965, but the library continued to grow, and moved into new quarters across the street in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored, and rededicated as the Adams Center in November 2012. On March 12, 2013, the Kingston Board of Selectman created the Adams Center Board of Trustees "to secure optimal use of the Adams Center for the benefit of the Citizens of Kingston." Restoration has allowed the building to be used as a venue for multiple cultural events. The building is available for rental for group events, small conferences, corporate meetings, seminars and private functions.</p><br>
<p>The Paragon Park Carousel is a historic carousel at 1 Wharf Avenue in Hull, Massachusetts. Built in 1928 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, it is one of the state&#39;s only surviving four-wide carousels, and is the only surviving element of the Paragon Park amusement park. The carousel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Paragon Park Carousel is located in southern Hull, on a parcel bounded by Nantasket Avenue, George Washington Boulevard, and Wharf Avenue. Across Nantasket Avenue is Nantasket Beach, a recreation area that has been a well-known summer getaway destination since the 19th century. The carousel is in a stucco-walled single-story twelve-sided building, with a broad bellcast roof. The roof has deep eaves, with exposed rafters. Each face of the building has a garage-style lifting door, above which area band of four windows. The shape of the building&#39;s roof was custom-designed to house the carousel, which has an unusual scalloped top with barrel vaults. The interior of these vaults is painted with a cloud-dotted sky, with the rim decorated with cherubs, cartouches, and international scenery. The carousel consists of a series of wooden sweeps, braced by brackets. All of the horses mounted on the outside rank are stationary, while there are a combination of fixed and moving horses on the inner ranks. There are two Roman-style chariots, each "pulled" by two horses. There are a total of 66 horses, of which 42 move.</p><br>
<p>The first carousel at Paragon Park was built in 1920 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC). The present carousel was also built by the PTC, in 1928. It is believed to contain elements manufactured by the Dentzel Carousel Company, whose assets were purchased by PTC in 1928. It is one of 18 four-wide carousels manufactured by the company, and one of only two four-wide pre-1950 carousels in the state. Of the Paragon Park rides, it is the only still on what were the park grounds; the Giant Coaster still survives as The Wild One at Six Flags America in Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The carousel was operated as part of Paragon Park until the park closed in 1984. Its parts were auctioned off, but most were purchased by a locally organized preservation committee. In 1986 it was moved a short distance to its present location. It is now operated by the Friends of the Paragon Carousel.</p><br>
<p>Point Allerton Lifesaving Station is a historic building of the United States Life-Saving Service at 1117 Nantasket Avenue in Hull, Massachusetts. The service was eventually merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard. The Queen Anne style station was built in 1889 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It is a minimally-decorated building, scaled to fit into the surrounding residential area. Its first commander was Hull native Joshua James, whose heroic career in lifesaving is detailed in the museum. Keeper William Sparrow commanded the station through its transition to the United States Coast Guard in 1915.</p><br>
<p>The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It is the best-preserved of 32 stations that once lined the Massachusetts coast (most have since been demolished or adapted to other uses). It is now operated as the Hull Lifesaving Museum.</p><br>
<p>Telegraph Hill is a historic site in Hull, Massachusetts. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is now part of Fort Revere Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was first used as a fort in 1776 to defend the port of Boston. The first telegraph tower was built in 1827. Several other telegraph stations later occupied the site until 1938, when radio communications made the site obsolete.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, United States Government built a 120 foot high, 25 foot diameter reinforced concrete tower to contain a 20-foot diameter, 118,000-gallon steel water storage tank to serve Fort Revere. Erected by the Hennebique Construction Company, the tower was one of the earliest concrete water towers in the United States, and likely the first in New England. It also had a secondary benefit as an observation tower for the Army. The tower was restored in 1975 was designated an American Water Landmark in 2003. It was periodically open to the public until mid-2012 when it was closed due to safety concerns.</p><br>
<p>The Third Meetinghouse is an historic church, community meeting house and Grange Hall at 1 Fairhaven Road in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Built in 1816, it is the town&#39;s oldest surviving public building, and the one in which the meeting leading to its separation from Rochester took place. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Third Meetinghouse occupies a prominent place in Mattapoisett&#39;s town center, at the northwest corner of Main and Fairhaven Streets. It is a two story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has a projecting gabled section at the center of its front facade, with entrances flanking it on either side. Rising above the main roof and this section is an octagonal tower, whose second stage features round-arch louvers, and whose top is in a bellcast shape. The building corners have paneled pilasters, and the gables and eaves are adorned with modillion blocks. Many of the windows are topped by rounded arches in the Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>The Third Meetinghouse was built in 1816 for the Second Parish of Rochester (established 1736), after its second meetinghouse had its roof blown off by a hurricane. In 1837 the parish population held a meeting in which it was decided to seek separation from Rochester, resulting in Mattapoisett&#39;s eventual incorporation in 1857. The building was at first used for both civic and religious purposes, with the congregation moving out after 28 years because it outgrew the space. In 1854, the building was adapted for use as a secondary school, which operated until 1862. After 1870 the meeting house became the Barstow School. The building was acquired by the local Grange chapter in 1915.</p><br>
<p>The Old Town Hall of Lakeville, Massachusetts, is located at 2 Precinct Street. Built in 1856, it is an excellent example of a 19th-century Greek Revival town hall. The building originally housed town offices as well as hosting town meetings; it is now used primarily for the latter function. The hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Lakeville&#39;s Old Town Hall is located in its main village, at the northwest corner of Precinct and Bedford Streets. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its corners have paneled pilasters, which rise to an entablature that runs along the building sides, and to short gable returns on the front facade. The front is symmetrical, with a pair of entrances, each framed by pilasters and corniced entablatures. The second-floor windows are set directly above the entrances, and are topped by projecting caps. An original noticeboard is mounted on the wall between the two entrances. The interior of the ground floor is a single large chamber, with stairs leading up to the second floor. The second floor houses an enclosed area that historically housed town offices. The principal alteration to the interior is the installation of a dropped ceiling in the meeting hall.</p><br>
<p>The building was erected in 1856, and was the town&#39;s principal civic building for nearly a century. In addition to hosting town meetings, it has also at times housed the local library, and the offices of the town selectmen. The non-meeting elements of town government were moved to new facilities in 1952. This building continues to serve as a community meeting space.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas–Webster Estate is a historic estate at 238 Webster Street in Marshfield, Massachusetts. It is most notable for its association with the politician and statesman Daniel Webster, who owned a large  property in Marshfield, and is buried here along with other members of his family. The core of the estate was a farmstead Webster purchased from Nathaniel Thomas in 1832. Webster was known for his interest in agricultural science, and he made his farm one of the most productive in the area. Webster&#39;s house burned down in 1878, but a new house was built on its foundations. The property includes a number of landscape features designed by Webster, as well as the site where his small law office building stood during his lifetime. </p><br>
<p>The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is currently owned by the town of Marshfield and is open for tours during the summer.</p><br>
<p>The Tack Factory was a historic industrial facility at 49 Tiffany Road in Norwell, Massachusetts, United States. With its oldest portion dating to 1834, it was the last surviving 19th-century mill building in Norwell prior to its destruction by fire in 1983. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. For most of its history it was used in the manufacture of horse tack equipment.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Tack Factory was set on the west side of Tiffany Road, just south of Tiffany Pond. At the southern end of the pond stands a dam, probably built in the early 20th century, which replaced an older 18th-century dam probably built for the grist mill that first stood at the site. The main building, which stood across Third Herring Brook, was a single-story post-and-beam structure with a broad gable roof. Its exterior had been covered with several layers of wood shingling, and a tall 30 ft brick chimney rose from the north slope of the roof. Underneath the building was a granite sluiceway, in which the old waterwheel and related equipment could be found. The main building was enlarged by three relatively small frame additions.</p><br>
<p>The factory was built in 1834 by Zephaniah Talbot and Samuel Salmond, who had acquired the water rights of the 18th-century mill that previously stood on the site. The Salmond family operated the factory, producing horse tack for many years, until the mid-20th century. The last occupant of the property was a printing company.</p><br>
<p>The factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was destroyed by fire in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Peter Pierce Store is a historic commercial building at 99 North Main Street in Middleborough, Massachusetts. The Greek Revival structure was built in 1808 by Colonel Peter Pierce, one of the town&#39;s leading businessmen of the mid 19th century. It presently houses the Middleborough Police Department. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Peter Pierce Store occupies a prominent location the center of Middleborough, at the northeast corner of North Main and Jackson Streets. It is a T-shaped wood frame structure, with a two-story central section forming the leg of the T, and single-story flanking sections on either side. The central section is fronted by a monumental four-column Greek Revival portico, the columns supporting an entablature and fully pedimented gable with a semi-oval window at the center. The side wings have gable roofs perpendicular to that of the central block, and are each five bays wide with a center entrance framed by pilasters and a corniced entablature.</p><br>
<p>Peter Pierce (or Peirce, 1788-1861) was for many years one of Middleboroughs most prominent businessmen. In addition to a retail store, he operated a cotton mill, a shovel factory, and served as a money lender. He was active in civic affairs, serving for two years in the state legislature. This building was erected in stages between 1825 and 1830 to house all of his diverse retail affairs. The business was operated by his sons until 1901, and then sold out of the family. In 1935 it was purchased by the town and adapted for use as its police headquarters, a function it continues to serve today. It is one of the towns most architecturally significant 19th-century buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Bryant–Cushing House is a historic First Period house at 768 Main Street in Norwell, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1698 by Deacon Thomas Bryant. It is five bays wide and two deep, and has a large central chimney. The main entrance is centerd on the front facade, and is flanked by fluted pilasters supporting a pediment. The house was in the locally prominent Cushing family for roughly two hundred years. Much of the land formerly associated with the house now forms part of the adjacent Norris Reservation, conservation land owned by The Trustees of Reservations.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and included in the Norwell Village Area Historic District, in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Wickaboag Valley Historic District is a predominantly rural historic district in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Wickaboag Pond, Mill Stone Rd., Madden Rd., and the border with New Braintree. The central feature of the district is two branches of Sucker Brook, which empties into Wickaboag Pond, and the rural views of the valley through which these streams move. Except for a cluster of houses near Wickaboag Valley, Shea, Ragged Hill, and Millstone Roads, buildings are sparsely arranged on the roads that pass through the district. There are fourteen houses of historic interest, the oldest of which date to the 1790s. There are also archaeological remnants of the area&#39;s early industrial history, with documented mill sites dating to the late 17th century.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The West Brookfield Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic center of West Brookfield, Massachusetts. When first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it was centered on the triangular junction of Main Street, North Main Street, and School Street, extending away from this area along Main Street, North Main Street, and Foster Hill Road. A few of its properties lie on side streets adjacent to these roads. This area represented the core of Brookfield, before it was broken into smaller communities, including West Brookfield. It has a fine collection of 18th and 19th century homes, ranging stylistically from Federal to Queen Anne, as well as the town hall and public library.</p><br>
<p>The district was enlarged in 2006 to include a residential and industrial area south of the center, primarily along Milk, Front, and Ware Streets. This area was developed largely after the arrival of the railroad in 1839. It is composed mainly of residential structures dating from that time to the early 20th century, although it does include a cluster of fairly nondescript 19th century railroad-related buildings, as well as two passenger depots: an 1847 Gothic Revival structure, and a Richardsonian Romanesque passenger station built in 1884 to a design by Springfield architect E. C. Gardner that was strongly influenced by those of H. H. Richardson, who had designed other depots for the Boston and Albany Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The Oakdale Village Historic District is a historic district encompassing the small 19th-century village of Oakdale in West Boylston, Massachusetts. Located at the confluence of the Stillwater and Quinepoxet Rivers near their outlet into the Wachusett Reservoir, the village consists mainly of Greek Revival houses, although later Victorian styles are also present in smaller numbers. Its state of preservation is partly because development in the area was effectively halted when the process of building the reservoir began in the 1890s. A significant portion of the village was destroyed to make way for the reservoir, and railroads and industry were forced to relocate.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Bigelow Tavern Historic District is a historic district at 60, 64 and 65 Worcester Street in West Boylston, Massachusetts. It consists of a cluster of three buildings: Bigelow Tavern, the White/Gibbs Store, and Temple&#39;s Distillery. The buildings have a history of common ownership, and the area was locally important from the late 18th century into the late 19th century. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bigelow Tavern and its associated properties are located in the village center of West Boylston, north of the town common on either side of Worcester Street (Massachusetts Routes 12 and 140). On the east side of the road stands the tavern, a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. The building is oriented facing south, toward the cemetery, and has a single-story ell extending to the east, joining it to a 1-1/2 story shed. Across the street from the tavern stands a former distillery associated with the tavern; it appears as a three-bay 1-1/2 story Cape facing east. Although it has been converted to residential use, it retains a number of interior feature that appear to be distinctive to its original use as a distillery. North of the distillery stands the tavern store, a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a five-bay front facade and central entry. Its interior is arranged with a large room in the front, and smaller rooms in the rear flanking a central staircase.</p><br>
<p>The town of West Boylston was settled in the 18th century, and was incorporated in 1808 out of parts of neighboring towns. Its town common was laid out in 1795, when its first church was built, and it is around those that its village center grew. The Bigelow properties were built between about 1790 and 1810, and effectively functioned as the town&#39;s first commercial center. Ezra Bigelow was the first operator of the tavern, and members of his family and its descendants would operate it until 1833. The distillery, also an early operation, probably fell victim to the growing temperance movement. All of the businesses depended to some degree on the sale of alcohol, and were likely harmed by a decision to relocate the church further south after it burned down in 1832.</p><br>
<p>Stony Farm is a historic farmstead at 428 Salisbury Street in Holden, Massachusetts. Built about 1790, the main house is a well-preserved local example of Federal architecture, and the surviving elements of the one-extensive farm property are a reminder of Holden&#39;s predominantly agrarian past. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Stony Farm is in southern Holden, set on the east side of Salisbury Street, a historic roadway connecting Holden center and Worcester to the south. The property associated with the farm, now just under 8 acre, once extended to more than 100 acre, includes stone walls and other typical New England farmland features, as well as a barn, garage, and several sheds. The main house is 2-1/2 stories in height, oriented facing west, with a side gable roof, two interior chimneys, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. Its five-bay front is symmetrical, with flanking sidelight windows and an entablature above. A two-story ell extends to the rear from the southeast corner. The interior follows a center-hall plan, with a modest staircase in the center hall, and the main parlor to its left, with a carved Federal style fireplace mantel.</p><br>
<p>The house was traditionally ascribed a construction date of about 1779, but deed research has determined that it was more likely built in the early 1790s by Tilla Chafin, who assembled a farm property of more than 50 acre, sold in 1828 to his son "with buildings thereon". Later owners enlarged the farm holdings, much of which were sold off for residential development in 1974. The complex, its outbuildings dating from the 19th century to 1936 (when the garage was built), is a well-kept reminder of the town&#39;s agrarian past.</p><br>
<p>The Willard-Fisk House is a historic farm property at 126 Whitney Street in Holden, Massachusetts. The farmhouse, built about 1772, is one of the oldest houses in Holden, and one of its oldest brick houses. The property also includes a 19th-century barn and several 20th-century farm outbuildings. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, where it is listed at 121 Whitney Street.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Willard-Fisk House is set in rural northwestern Holden, on the east side of Whitney Street. It is set on about 5 acre of former farmland. It is a 2-1/2 story building, with brick front and side walls, end chimneys, and a clapboarded rear wall. Its west-facing front facade is five bays wide, symmetrically arranged, with a center entrance whose only significant ornamentation is a four-light transom window. A 2-1/2 story wood frame ell extends to the rear of the house. The property also includes a 19th-century barn, and 20th-century chicken house, wood shed, and well house. The property is lined with typical New England fieldstone walls.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1772 by Daniel Willard on more than 100 acre of land he purchased in that year. It is one of two 18th-century houses on Whitney Street (the other is the Brown-Davis-Frost Farm house), both of which are the earliest known examples of brick architecture in the town. Brick was rarely used in the area during the 18th century; most of Holdens brick architecture dates to the 19th century and later. Willards widow sold the house in 1777 to David Fisk, a Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The Hubbardston Public Library is the public library of Hubbardston, Massachusetts. The library, located at 7 Main Street, serves the town by providing a wide variety of materials, services, and events. It offers Internet access and access to the CWMARS resource-sharing catalog.</p><br>
<p>The library is housed in one of Hubbardstons most architecturally significant buildings, an 1874 Second Empire/Italianate brick building that also houses the town offices. Construction of the building, and a significant portion of the librarys early collection, were made possible through grants and gifts from Hubbardston native Jonas G. Clark, founder of Worcester&#39;s Clark University. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and building history</h2><br>
<p>The library is located in the village center of Hubbardston, on the west side of Main Street (Massachusetts Route 68), north of its junction with Brigham and Elm Streets. It is the most distinctive and architecturally elaborate building in the village, two stories in height, built out of red brick, with granite and white wooden trim, and a slate roof. The center bay of the front facade projects, and is capped by a steeply pitched multicolor slate roof; this was originally crowned with iron cresting, which has been removed. Ground-floor windows are set in rounded openings with stepped granite headers, while second-floor windows are set in segmented-arch openings with bracketed lintels. The central bay has the main entrance recessed in a round-arch opening, with paired round-arch openings on the second level. A gable projects below the main tower roof, above a stone panel in which the name of the building&#39;s donor and year of construction are carved.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the construction of this building, the town of Hubbardston had no buildings in public ownership; its town meetings were held in the local church. It was the town&#39;s only public building until the 1980s, when the police station was built. It was designed by Worcester architect Elbridge Boyden for the donor, Jonas G. Clark, and was built on what had been three house lots, acquired by Clark for the purpose. Clark was probably responsible for bringing in the materials, and the craftsmen that constructed the building, from outside the community, whose other masonry buildings of the period were much simpler.</p><br>
<p>Since its construction, the building has housed the town&#39;s library, town offices, and a community meeting space.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Samuel Gay House is a historic house at 10 Williamsville Road in Hubbardston, Massachusetts. This 2.5 story wood frame house was built in 1817 for Reverend Samuel Gay, a controversial local minister. The house is a fine local example of Federal style architecture, particularly noted for its front door surround, which has pilasters and a semicircular fanlight topped by an entablature. Reverend Gay was a polarizing figure in the local Congregational Church, which split in 1827, with Gay leading the formation of the Evangelical Congregational Church, which was more Calvinist in its teaching than the Unitarians who remained in the old congregation.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Atherton Bridge is a historic iron truss bridge in Lancaster, Massachusetts, spanning the South Branch of the Nashua River. It is a rare example of a hybrid pony truss that is similar to the 19th century truss design of Simeon S. Post. It was built by J.H. Cofrode & Co. of Philadelphia in 1870. It was the first iron bridge to be constructed in the town. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The bridge formerly carried Bolton Road, but was closed to vehicular traffic in 1975 and bypassed by a modern highway bridge in the 1980s. It is still open to pedestrian traffic via a loop path from Bolton Road.</p><br>
<h2>Technical information</h2><br>
<p>The Atherton Bridge has iron compression posts that incline inward towards the center of the span and diagonal tension rods that incline outward towards the abutments. Unusual features include double end posts with adjustable turnbuckles, channeled castings to join the lower chord bars, and patented "Phoenix" columns for all inclined posts. This bridge does not make use of Simeon Post&#39;s patented joints. The floor beams support a wood plank deck.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is 72 ft long and 18.5 ft feet wide, and is composed of eight panels. It rests on granite abutments.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was photographed in 1979 by Jet Lowe of the Historic American Engineering Record, and documented in 1990 as part of the Massachusetts Historic Bridge Project.</p><br>
<p>The Lancaster Industrial School for Girls was a reform school in Lancaster, Massachusetts. It was the country&#39;s first state reform school for girls, opening on August 26, 1856. The facility provided its charges with separate rooms, arranged in three-story cottages with kitchen, dining, and other public facilities on the ground floor, rooms for the girls and a housemother on the second, and space for teachers on the third floor. This school paved the way of social reform, moving away from child imprisonment towards a correctional paradigm. This was in part achieved because of the observed benefits of environmental change in children, as well as the importance of education plus the added pressures of having to deal with the rise in child delinquency brought by social changes of the industrial age.</p><br>
<p>After its closure in 1975, it was redeveloped into Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Lancaster. The campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The North Village Historic District encompasses a well-preserved 19th-century rural village on North Main Street in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The district includes a collection of houses, most dating to the first half of the 19th century or earlier. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Lancaster, one of the oldest in northern Worcester Couty, was founded in 1643. The area that became North Village was first settled in 1717 by John Bennett, whose house built that year still stands near the center of the district. Around 1800, it experienced a period of growth, in which more houses and several businesses, including a tannery, machine shop, and inn were established. These small industries eventually declined, leaving the village as a cluster of mainly 18th and 19th-century residences.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is anchored at the eastern end by a triangular green formed by Main Street (Massachusetts Route 117) and Otis Street, and peters out in the west near Main Street&#39;s crossing of the Nashua River. Of the 22 buildings in the district, only three were built after the 19th century. All are of wood-frame construction, and either 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height, with sash windows and clapboarded exteriors. Two houses were built in the 19th century; that of John Bennett is a large building that also served historically as a tavern. Most of the other buildings in the district were built before 1860, and are in conservative vernacular interpretations of Federal and Greek Revival styles popular at the time.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Thayer Estate is a historic house at 438 S. Main Street in Lancaster, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>A house was built on the site in 1798 when Reverend Nathaniel Thayer (1769-1840) constructed his parsonage in South Lancaster. His sons took down the original home and built the estate in 1846. It was enlarged and remodeled in 1902 by the noted architect and interior designer Ogden Codman to 42 rooms.</p><br>
<p>After being sold out of the Thayer family and having its furnishings sold at auction, the house was sold to Atlantic Union College in 1943 at a cost of $12,500. Today the college&#39;s Music Department is housed in this mansion, renamed the Thayer Performing Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>The Rockdale Common Housing District is a historic district at 4-20 McBride, 46-58 Plantation, and 37-42 Taft Sts. in Northbridge, Massachusetts, United States. The district is composed of a collection of tenement houses built from c. 1880 to 1920. They were built by members of the Whitin family, who owned most of the textile production capacity in Northbridge. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of Rockdale is one of the principal villages and former industrial centers in the central Massachusetts town of Northbridge. Its industrial history begins in 1814, but it did not become a successful industrial center until the 1860s, when the mill privilege was acquired by the Whitin family, a leading operator of textile mills in the Blackstone River valley. The Whitins attracted a reliable workforce by building housing, schools, and other community buildings for their workers. In the late 19th century an influx of French Canadians drawn to work at the mill in Rockdale prompted the company to build additional housing east of Taft Street.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes seven residential structures built by the Paul Whitin Company between about 1880 and 1920. They are located in a single square block, bounded by Mcbride, Plantation, and Taft Streets, and Church Avenue. Two long six-unit rowhouses stand on the east side of Taft Street, larger in form than earlier tenement houses built to the west; these were built about 1915. Facing McBride and Taft Streets are four triple decker apartment blocks, housing six or twelve units. Built c. 1917, these have notable Colonial Revival styling in their front porches and polygonal window bays. Lastly, one six-unit building with Italianate styling also faces Taft Street.</p><br>
<p>The buildings continue to be used as low-income residential housing.</p><br>
<p>Bartlett&#39;s Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge carrying Clara Barton Road over the French River in Oxford, Massachusetts. The bridge was built in 1889 to a design by Charles A. Allen, at the time a civil engineer for the city of Worcester. The bridge was built to replace an older wooden span at the request of Edwin Bartlett, the owner of textile mills in North Oxford, whose businesses and employees would have used the road. The bridge is 30 ft long and 42 ft wide, with its elliptical arch reaching a height of 13 ft above the river. The facing of the bridge is rough-cut granite that has been fixed with mortar. In contrast, the granite stones that make up the arch have been very precisely worked. The bridge has parapet walls made of large granite slabs 4.5 ft, 2 ft wide, and 1 ft thick.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Hudson House is a historic First Period house in Oxford, Massachusetts. It is a 2-1/2 story timber frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. The main facade is symmetrical. with a modern central entrance in the Georgian Revival style, with sidelights and pilasters at the sides, and an entablature above. The house has a section that was probably built c. 1720 by William Hudson, one of the first English settlers of Oxford. It was probably extended from three bays to five later in the 18th century. It remained in Hudson family hands until about 1960. It is believed to be Oxford&#39;s oldest standing building.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Shumway Block is a historic commercial building on 112-116 Main Street in Webster, Massachusetts. Built in 1887, it is a well-preserved local example of late Victorian commercial brick architecture, and has played a prominent role in the business economy of the Webster downtown&#39;s west end. The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
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<p>The town of Websters downtown area extends along Massachusetts Route 12, roughly from the French River and the railroad tracks running north-south just to its east, eastward toward Lake Street. The Shumway Block is located on the south side of the Street, just east of the railroad tracks. This area was not originally the center of Websters economic activity, but became an important area when the railroad was built through the area. A wood-frame commercial building stood here for many years, and was a fixture of economic activity related to the railroad. It burned down in 1886, and the present Shumway Block was built on the site by Oscar Shumway, who had purchased the building in 1872.</p><br>
<p>The block is a three-story brick structure, nine bays wide, with a flat roof. Its facade is divided into three sections, articulated by stone piers on the first floor and brick pilasters on the upper levels. Each section has a commercial storefront on the first floor, with glass display windows and recessed entrances. Windows on the upper floors are grouped in threes, with stone lintels and sills. Decorative brick panelwork is found between the second and third floors, and there are half-round terra cotta panels above the three windows in the center section third floor. A band of corbelled brickwork runs below the roofline, and the central section has a parapet flanked by square posts with urns at the ends.</p><br>
<p>Guaranty Building is a high-rise Beaux Arts office building located at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1923 and was designed by John C. Austin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1979. The building is currently owned by the Church of Scientology.</p><br>
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<p>According to the file on the building published by the National Register of Historic Places, the reasoning for giving the building a landmark status is as follows: “The Guaranty Building has played a major role in the commercial development of this area. As a key financial institution, the Guaranty Building is a fine example of the use of a neo-classical architectural expression to project the desired "conservative" image. The northeast corner of Ivar Street and Hollywood Boulevard has always occupied a special place in the social and economic history of Hollywood. Part of the original Hollywood ranch owned by Horace and Daeida Wilcox, the corner became the first permanent site of the First Methodist Church of Hollywood in 1910. The Guaranty Building and Loan Association paid the church $2000 per front foot for the site in 1923, and proceeded to erect the twelve story Guaranty Building, one of the first height-limit (150 feet) buildings on Hollywood Blvd.”</p><br>
<p>The District Five Schoolhouse, also known as the Fenner Hill School, is a historic former school building at 449 School Street in Webster, Massachusetts. Built in 1835, the one-room schoolhouse was the first school building built by the recently incorporated town of Webster. It served the town as a school for 100 years, after which it was used by the school system for storage. In 1966 it became the museum and headquarters of the Webster-Dudley Historical Society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The District Five Schoolhouse is located south of Webster&#39;s central business district, on the east side of School Street, historically the major route leading south toward Thompson, Connecticut. It is a single story brick building, rectangular in shape, with a gable roof oriented parallel to the street. A gable-roofed wood frame vestibule on the south side houses the main entrance, and a shed-roof ell extends to the north. The east and west sides each have three sash windows. The interior houses a single classroom, with the northern ell originally housing wood storage and a bathroom, now altered to house a kitchen and bath.</p><br>
<p>The town of Webster was incorporated in 1832, principally by the efforts of early industrialist Samuel Slater, out of neighboring towns. This school was built soon afterward, and was the first school to be built in the new town, at a cost of $447.50. Although the town abolished its district school system in 1867, this school remained open, serving the nearby neighborhood. In 1883 the school designated one of the town&#39;s primary schools. The school was briefly closed during the Great Depression, and was permanently closed in 1939. After being used by the town for storage for many years, it was leased in 1962 to the local historical society for $1, on the condition it be used as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Public Library is the public library of Warren, Massachusetts, It is located at 934 Main Street, in a Richardsonial Romanesque building designed by Amos P. Cutting and built in 1889. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
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<p>The library is set on the north side of Main Street (Massachusetts Routes 19 and 67), just east of the town&#39;s central business district and west of the town common. It is a 2-1/2 story structure, built of granite with brownstone trim, with a slate roof and a granite foundation. Its front facade is asymmetrically arranged into three sections, with a three-story pyramidally-roofed tower on the left, the main entrance in the center, and a large projecting gable section on the right. Courses of granite are periodically interspersed with bands of brownstone that extend across and around the building. The tower has a projecting bay window, above which is a round-arch opening with a pair of round-arch windows within, topped by an oculus. An arcade of small arched openings bands across the tower between that opening and the roof.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Public Library was chartered in 1876, and first opened to the public in 1879 in rooms of the town hall. Rapidly outgrowing that space, a fund drive was held to fund the construction of a dedicated building, which resulted in the construction of this building on land donated by Wilson H. Fairbank in 1889. The building was designed by Amos P. Cutting, who had previously designed the nearby Congregational Church.</p><br>
<p>The original building plan called for the upstairs to be used as a meeting hall for lectures and civic events. It was instead decided to use space there for a museum, and display cases were purchased at an early date to fulfil this role. The stacks were eventually expanded into the space as well, but it was closed off during World War II as an energy conservation measure, and not reopened until 2001.</p><br>
