<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.</p><br>
<p>The bridge remained open to pedestrian traffic until April 2020, when a flash flood damaged the bridge&#39;s wooden deck and it was closed to all traffic. The long-term future of the bridge is uncertain.</p><br>
<p>The sign commemorating Atherton Bridge states:</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 on Old Common Road 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. 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>
<h2>Campus</h2><br>
<p>The Lancaster Schools campus is located southeast of the town center, on 70 acre of landscaped terrain between Old Common Road (to the south) and Still River Road (Massachusetts Route 110) to the north. The campus includes eighteen historic buildings, dating from the late 18th to early 20th centuries. Many of its purpose-built buildings from this period are of brick construction, and most of those date to the period of the schools founding in the 1850s. There are three wood-frame buildings on the campus from the 18th century, all farmhouses which were standing when the state acquired the land. These buildings were used by the school for staff housing and offices.</p><br>
<p>A number of the buildings are residential "cottages", which had common spaces on the ground floor, and sleeping arrangements for both students and staff. The common spaces included a dining room, kitchen, sewing room, laundry, parlor, and classroom.</p><br>
<p>The Anthony Lane House is a historic house at 250 Seven Bridge Road in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Built in 1809, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Federal period architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Anthony Lane House is located northeast of the town center of Lancaster, at the northeast corner of Seven Bridge Road and Harvard Road. It is a -story wood-frame house, five bays wide and two deep, with a front-facing gable roof, end brick walls, clapboard siding on the front, and interior chimneys on each side. The front gable is fully pedimented, with a modillioned cornice and two small sash windows in the center. Windows are set in rectangular openings with operable shutters, and are arranged symmetrically around the main entrance on the front facade. The front entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a half-round transom window. The interior retains many original finishes, most notable finely carved wainscoting in the main parlor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1809 by Pliny Newhall, a local bricklayer who purchased the land from his employer, whose yard was across the street. He sold the house in 1818 to Captain Anthony Lane, a local farmer who served for several separate terms as town selectman. Architecturally, the house is a harmonious blend of Greek Revival and Federal styles, unusual for the front-facing gable, an uncommon feature in Federal period houses.</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 County, 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 Ponakin Bridge is a historic Post truss bridge spanning the Nashua River in northern Lancaster, Massachusetts. The bridge was built in 1871, and originally carried the main north–south road , which was bypassed by the construction of Massachusetts Route 70. It is now unsafe and closed even to pedestrians. The bridge, with a design once common but now extremely rare, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ponakin Bridge is located in a rural setting several miles north of the village center of Lancaster, spanning the Nashua River in a roughly east–west orientation between Massachusetts Route 70 and Ponakin Road, a dead-end residential street paralleling the river&#39;s west bank. The bridge trusses consist of eight paneled sections with a total span of 100 ft and a width of 20 ft. It rests on granite stone abutments formed out of rough-cut stone 20 ft long. The decking consists of a base of cross timbers which are attached to the trusses, with wood stringers, then transverse cross timbers, and finally three inch deck planking. The truss panels have pinned end diagonals that are under compression, diagonal bars spanning two panels under tension.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1871 for town by the Watson Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey. It was built at a location where wooden bridges had stood since the 17th century, on the major road leading north from Lancaster. The route was bypassed by the present alignment of Route 70 in 1965. The bridge design was patented about 1866 by Simon S. Post, and was one of the major bridge forms used in developing the national railroad network, including major crossings such as that of the Union Pacific Railroad over the Missouri River. The bridge deck is now compromised, and the bridge has been closed to all forms of traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Thayer Estate is a historic house in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Built in 1846 and extensively restyled in 1902, it is a particularly fine example of Georgian Revival architecture, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Since 1946, the estate has been owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which operated Atlantic Union College there until its 2018 closure. The main house is presently home to, bringing community together through music and the arts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Thayer Estate is located at the northern end of the former Atlantic Union College campus, roughly midway between the villages of South Lancaster and Lancaster on the west side of Massachusetts Route 70. It is a large wood-frame structure, with a central three-story block flanked by two-story wings that project forward of the main block&#39;s facade. The central block is five bays wide, and is covered by a truncated hip roof with modillioned cornice. The central three blocks project slightly, and are topped by a pedimented gable. The main entrance is at the center, sheltered by a flat-roof portico with paired Doric columns. The interior is richly decorated with marble and wood, and features a large drawing room (now a performance space) in one of the wings.</p><br>
<p>A house was built on the site in 1798 when Reverend Nathaniel Thayer (1769-1840) constructed his parsonage in South Lancaster. Thayer was the towns Congregationalist minister for 47 years. His son Nathaniel, who had made a fortune in business, took down the original home and developed the estate in 1846, building the core of the present house. It was enlarged and remodeled in 1902 by the architect and interior designer Ogden Codman Jr. to 42 rooms for Nathaniel Thayer III. 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. It was used as the schools administration building between 1945 and 1951, and then as a dormitory until about 1970. From 1973 to now the Nathaniel Thayer estate is now home to, Center for Music and the Arts. Thayer Conservatory is being run by the director Dr. Connie Rittenhouse Drexler.</p><br>
<p>Camp Atwater is a summer camp on Shore Road in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Originally named, St. Johns Camp, it was established in 1921 by Dr. William N. DeBerry on the shores of Lake Lashaway. The camp gained the name "Atwater" when Mary Atwater donated $25,000 to Dr. DeBerry in 1926. They were funded to honor her late father who was Dr. David Fisher. Camp Atwaters mission was to provide a summer recreational experience for African-American boys, at a time when summer camps were generally racially segregated. The camp catered primarily to middle- and upper-class African Americans, and drew attendees from up and down the Atlantic coast. Notable attendees include Coleman Young, Clifford Alexander, Jr., Clifton Wharton, Jr., Hazel O&#39;Leary, Dennis Hightower, and Wayne Budd. The camp was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is now owned and operated by the Urban League of Springfield.</p><br>
<p>The camp occupies 75 acre of land on the northern shore of Lake Lashaway. Of this, about 75 acre are wooded, while the developed area is mainly located between Shore Road and the lake. The camp owns 325 ft of lakeshore, as well as a 3 acre island. Most of the camp facilities are organized around a U-shaped drive, and include the main hall, recreation hall, dining hall, and camper cabins. Recreational facilities include a variety of sports fields as well as basketball and tennis courts. There are fourteen camper cabins, housing between 8 and 25 campers in addition to counselors. The oldest building in the camp is White Cabin, which was built about 1760, and is one of two structures that predate the camps founding. Located just on the north side of Shore Road, White Cabin was where the camps first season of campers were housed.</p><br>
<p>The North Brookfield Town House is a historic municipal building at 185 N. Main Street in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame building was built in 1864 to a design by E. Boyden & Son. The building is located prominently in the center of North Brookfields commercial district, and is distinguished by the 60 ft tower at the corner of North Main and Summer Streets. The building is richly decorated with Italianate and French Second Empire styling. It is the towns third town hall.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</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>The US Post Office—Whitinsville Main is an historic post office building located at 58 Church Street in the village of Whitinsville in the town of Northbridge, Massachusetts. It is a single-story Colonial Revival masonry building, built of brick and cast stone and capped by a hip roof. It was built in 1938, and is distinguished for the massive pilasters that flank the central entrance, and for its cupola.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and was included in the Whitinsville Historic District in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Whitinsville Historic District is a historic district on Church, East, Fletcher, Hill, Woodland, Lake, and Water Sts., Castle Hill Rs., and Linwood Avenue in Northbridge, Massachusetts. The district encompasses the historic 19th century mill village of Whitinsville, which grew up around an 1826 brick mill building  erected by Paul Whitin. The Whitin family came to dominate the textile trade in Northbridge, with numerous mill complexes.</p><br>
<p>In addition to mill buildings and mill worker housing, the district includes the 1938 post office building and the 1913 Whitinsville Social Library.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The district has been included as part of the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park.</p><br>
<p>Bartlett&#39;s Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge carrying Clara Barton Road over the French River in Oxford, Massachusetts. Built in 1889, it is a rare example of late 19th-century stone bridge construction in the state. It was originally built to provide improved capacity for vehicles servicing a nearby textile mill complex. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bartlett&#39;s Bridge is located in northern Oxford, in what is now a largely rural-residential area, carrying Clara Barton Road a short way west of its junction with Main Street. 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 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. Bartlett had originally requested that the town build an iron truss bridge, but it opted instead for one made of stone, which was completed by Worcester-based stonemasons in six months at a cost of $2200. Its construction precedes by a few years the state&#39;s first establishment of standards for highway bridge construction.</p><br>
<p>The Hudson House is a historic First Period house in Oxford, Massachusetts. It is a -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 Thompson School is a historic school building on Prospect Street in Webster, Massachusetts. The -story English Revival brick building was constructed in 1912–13 to a design by Walter F. Fontaine, a leading architect from nearby Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was named for Dr. John A. Thompson, who served on the local school committee from 1907 until his death in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The school building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>The Spaulding Block is a historic commercial building in Webster, Massachusetts. One of the oldest commercial buildings in Webster, this three story brick building was built in 1866 by Cyrus Spaulding, and housed his hardware store. The Webster Times was also an early occupant, after its previous home was burned out. The building underwent a major renovation in 1897, receiving a new facade with Tudor styling.</p><br>
<p>The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Shumway Block is a historic commercial building 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>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<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>The Rock Castle School is a historic school building on Prospect Street in Webster, Massachusetts. The two story masonry building was built in 1871, and was Webster&#39;s second high school building. It served that purpose until 1905, after which it intermittently served a variety of public and private educational purposes until 1972. The building has Italianate styling, with high and narrow round-arch windows, and a projecting central pavilion that has a gable end with an oculus window. The building is predominantly light shades of polychrome granite, with brick quoining.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Guaranty Building, also known as Guaranty Building and Loan Association, Hollywood Guaranty Building, Allstate Title Building, and L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition Building, is a historic high-rise Beaux Arts office building located at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It is currently owned by the Church of Scientology.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hollywood&#39;s Guaranty Building was built in 1923, with Gilbert Bessemyer as the owner and Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille included as investors. The building features Beaux-Arts architecture and was designed by John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley, with John Austin and his partners noted at the time for their work on Los Angeles City Hall, Griffith Observatory, Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, Shrine Civic Auditorium, and Hollywood Masonic Temple. Upon completion, the building was appraised for $1,325,000 and over the years, its tenants have included Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. Demille, Hedda Hopper, Al Jolson, Rudolph Valentino, and others.</p><br>
<p>The building was hit hard by the Great Depression, with its primary tenant Guaranty Savings declaring bankruptcy in 1930, an event that had ripple effects throughout Hollywood. Allstate Title Company moved into the location the following year and aided in the area&#39;s recovery.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the building was included in the National Register of Historic Places,</p><br>
<h3>Scientology</h3><br>
<p>In 1988, the Church of Scientology purchased the building for $5.1 million,</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>The Guaranty Building is 170 feet tall and contains twelve floors above ground and one floor below. The building is rectangular in plan and made of reinforced concrete, and features a Beaux Arts design that includes Neo-Renaissance and Classical Revival characteristics, with the design divided into three horizontal sections, the top and bottom sections mirroring each other. These sections are sheathed in terra cotta and grey granite, while the middle section is faced with light colored brick. Brass and bronze</p><br>
<p>metalwork also feature throughout the exterior of the building.</p><br>
<p>The bottom section consists of the first three floors, the first and second tied together by two massive Corinthian engaged columns inside a recessed entrance bay that is flanked by rectangular piers on block bases topped with modified Corinthian capitals. An egg-and-dart design adds decoration around the doors and on the second story molding, while a classic cornice serves as a stringcourse at the top of the third story.</p><br>
<p>The middle section consists of the fourth through tenth floors and features a central bay set against slightly recessed side bays. Single, double-hung sash windows break the wall surface of the side bays, while paired, double-hung sash windows articulate the central bay. The top section consists of the eleventh and twelfth floors, with stone columns topped with capital ornamentation connecting them. A heavy cornice finishes the design at the roofline. The building&#39;s side elevation is designed with the same divisions as the facade, but features engaged piers instead of columns.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the lobby features marble floors and walls, and the elevator doors are brass with a textured quilted pattern.</p><br>
<p>The Eddy Block is a historic commercial building in Webster, Massachusetts. The three-story brick building was built by Lyman R. Eddy in 1878 on the site of a previous block which had been destroyed by fire. The Gothic Revival building has had a variety of tenants, including the post office, a district court, the Masonic Lodge , and the Webster Times.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</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>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<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>Warren Town Hall is a historic town hall in Warren, Massachusetts. The Renaissance Revival structure was built in 1900 to a design by Henry Hyde Dwight. The previous town hall, an 1879 Richardsonian Romanesque building was heavily damaged by fire, and its shell formed part of the framework for the new building. The old building was faced in buff-colored brick and extended a further thirty feet, making the building 115 ft long and 55 ft wide. The old buildings north tower was completely rebuilt, and the buildings interior was completely new. The main entrance is sheltered by a portico supported by six Doric columns.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</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>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<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 -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>
<p>The Knowlton Hat Factory is a historic factory building in Upton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>In 1835 William Knowlton and William Legg formed a business partnership that spawned the creation of the hat factory. In 1845 William Legg retired, and was replaced by Joseph F. Farnum who was in a partnership with Knowlton for a short time. When he retired the business was carried on by Knowlton until his sons became of age. This is when the business was named "William Knowlton and Sons."</p><br>
<p>The factory was expanded in 1872 with the addition of a tower and later an office. This date is in cement over the front door. By this time the factory had become the biggest women&#39;s hat factory in the world. Other buildings were added through the years, most notably a large addition of a wing in the rear of the shop in 1908.</p><br>
<p>In 1925 the shop was bought by the Merrimack Hat Company, makers of wool and fur hats, who continued operation until 1952 when the shop was sold to Charles Kartiganer. Shortly following Kartiganer&#39;s takeover he sold the business to Lish Industries, where in 1972 it again changed hands and was bought by Millhaus Trust.</p><br>
<p>The factory building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was renovated by Healy and Brown Architectural Firm and converted into senior housing in 1985. The development is now owned by the Harbor Development Corp. in Swampscott, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Early blueprint - Knowlton Factory.png</p><br>
<p>The Templeton Common Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Templeton, Massachusetts. Laid out in the 1750s, the area has been the focus of the town&#39;s civic and economic affairs since, and includes its finest assortment of 18th and early 19th-century architecture. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The district was in 2010 named as one of the 1,000 places to visit in Massachusetts by the Great Places in Massachusetts Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now the northern Worcester County town of Templeton was organized as a township called Narragansett Number 6 in 1734, but significant settlement did not begin until the 1750s. The first meeting house was built in 1753, a burial ground was laid out in 1754, and the common was laid out in a plan of 1759. The town was incorporated as Templeton in 1761. The towns economy was mainly agrarian until about 1820, when small industries began to develop. The town center&#39;s economy also benefited from being a crossroads of three major stagecoach routes, with a number of taverns serving passing travelers. Chair manufacturing became a significant enterprise after 1820, and there was a small tin factory located in what is now the Grange hall. Development in the center ceased as a significant activity around 1860, as industrial employment was drawn to larger surrounding communities.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is centered on a complex junction of multiple roadways south of the town&#39;s geographic center. Baldwinville Road enters from the south, Patriots Road (Massachusetts Route 2A) enters from the west, Dudley Road (Massachusetts Route 101) from the southwest, Wellington Road from the south, Hubbardton Road from the southeast, and Patriots Road enters from the east (designated here as MA Routes 2A and 101). The district extends north along Baldwinville Road beyond Otter River Road, and for shorter distances along Gardner, Hubbardston, and Wellington Roads. Most of the buildings in the district are residential, stylistically from the Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival periods. The most prominent civic building is the First Congregational Church, designed and built by Elias Carter in 1811. This church is particularly notable, as its form was frequently copied, most clearly by Carter himself in the construction of several churches in southern New Hampshire over the following 20 years.</p><br>
<p>The Baldwinville Village Historic District encompasses the historic elements of the village of Baldwinville, a 19th-century mill village in northern Templeton, Massachusetts. Although its industrial elements have largely been lost, the district retains period housing and civic buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Templeton was settled beginning in the 1750s and was incorporated in 1761. The northern part of the town remained sparsely settled, although a bridge was built across the Otter River in what is now Baldwinville in 1763, adjacent to an early saw and grist mill. The districts oldest surviving building is the 1797 residence of Eden Baldwin, owner of local lumber and brick yards, at the junction of Maple Street and Baldwinville Road on the south side of the river. In 1805 a turnpike was opened to the bridge from Royalston, which helped the area develop into a small village by 1830, when it was formally named Baldwinville. Although none of the mill buildings survive, Greek Revival houses in the district date to this phase of development. Development was further spurred by the arrival of railroads in 1847 and 1872, and it became the principal economic center of the town, focused primarily on the manufacture of chairs. During the height of the villages prosperity in the late 19th century, fine Queen Anne and Stick style houses were built. The area&#39;s industries were regularly impacted by floods and fire, and the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 destroyed or damaged most of its remaining industrial buildings.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is roughly linear in shape, extending along Elm Street north of the river and Baldwinville Road south of the river. Its northern boundary is roughly Mason Street, while its southern boundary is roughly Mountain View Street. The district bulges on the north side of the river, where the village&#39;s commercial center is located, extending west along Pleasant and Memorial Streets, and east along Circle and Central Streets.</p><br>
<p>The Holland–Towne House is a historic house in Petersham, Massachusetts. Built in c. 1752 by Jonas Holland, it is one of the town&#39;s four surviving colonial-era houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Holland–Towne House is located on a private road north of the Petersham village center. The privately owned house is a -story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and fieldstone foundation. The main facade faces south, and is nearly symmetrical, with windows in the outer bays, and the entrance slightly off-center, with simple trim and a four-light transom window above. The interior retains a great deal of original 18th-century materials, with the latest alterations dating to the early 19th century. A barn, probably dating to the turn of the 19th century, stands to the house&#39;s west.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1752 by Jonas Holland and is one of only four colonial-era houses in the town. It is made more remarkable because its setting is also relatively unaltered since the early 19th century, with stone walls, agricultural and forest lands, and unpaved lanes. Jonas sons, Park and Luther Holland, were American Revolutionary War veterans and active participants in the 1786 rural uprising known as Shays Rebellion, and it is believed that some of the rebels were sheltered here. In 1816 the property was sold out of the Holland family; it was purchased by Dwight Towne in 1877.</p><br>
<p>The house property is the subject of a preservation easement held by Historic New England (formerly known as the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities).</p><br>
<p>The Petersham Common Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Petersham, Massachusetts. Laid out in 1733 and centered on the town common bounded by Main and Common Streets, it retains most of its 19th-century character, with only a few turn-of-the-20th-century civic buildings adding later character. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Buildings within the district include the Petersham Memorial Library. The Nichewaug Inn formerly occupied the district until its demolition in 2022.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Land in what is now Petersham was first granted to colonists in 1733, and the town was incorporated in 1754. Its town common was laid out in 1733, along with a series of house lots extending to the north and south, along what is now Main Street (Massachusetts Route 32). It is where the town&#39;s first meeting house was built, and it is where all of its town halls have been located. Since 1878, the common has been cared for by a village improvement society, and it has been the subject of a local historic district since 1967.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is basically linear, extending along Main Street between New Salem Road in the south and North Street in the north. Most of its 45 buildings were built before 1850; only a few are from the 20th century, and two of those (the town hall and the Unitarian Church, are from the outside reproductions of 19th-century buildings. Most of the buildings are wood-frame structures one or two stories in height; there is one brick building, built in 1848 as a schoolhouse. Two late additions to the district were designed by architect Edmund Wilson of Stone, Carpenter & Willson: the stone Petersham Memorial Library was built in 1889-91 as a memorial to the town&#39;s Civil War soldiers, and the Shingle style Hotel Nichewaug was built in 1899 as accommodations for summer visitors. Most of the other buildings in the district are Greek Revival. In addition to the common, other open space in the district includes the North Common Meadow, now a conservation property of The Trustees of Reservations.</p><br>
<h2>Nichewaug Inn</h2><br>
<p>Nichewaug Inn was a historic hotel in Petersham, Massachusetts. An inn was on the site as far back as 1850. The structure was built by James Brooks in 1899 after two earlier inns on the site were destroyed by fire. It was designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, who also designed the Petersham Memorial Library and Petersham Center School (1906). The Inn&#39;s golf course is now North Common Meadow. Cellist Helen Isabel Moorhouse wrote letters to her lover Alice E. Brown during her stay at the inn in the summer of 1915 and they are now part of the University of Michigan collection.</p><br>
<p>In 1952 it was purchased by the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin who expanded it and used it as a parochial high school for two decades, Maria Assumpta Academy.</p><br>
<p>The inn has been mostly empty since the 1980s and has had several owners until being acquired by the town. In 2018, the future of the property was the subject of public hearings. In 2018 the town, which owns the building, was seeking proposals from interested buyers. No buyers were found; as a result, voters at the Petersham town meeting in June 2022 elected to demolish the structure, which commenced in August 2022.</p><br>
<p>The Prescott Town House is a historic former town hall on MA 32 in Petersham, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1838 in a Greek Revival style and served as the town hall for Prescott, Massachusetts, a town that was unincorporated in order to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s. The town house was moved to Petersham, where it is now located on a hill above a hay meadow north of the town center. This move was funded by Judge John Monroe Woolsey, who used the building as a law library and office.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Fernside, or the Vacation House for Working Girls, is a historic former resort hotel at 162 Mountain Road in Princeton, Massachusetts. It is a complex of three buildings: its main house, a barn that was converted into a playhouse, and a two-car garage. The core of the main house is a Federal style house built in 1835 by Benjamin Harrington. The house was converted for use as a summer hotel around 1870, and in 1890 it was acquired by the Working Girls&#39; Vacation Society as a place to provide summer recreation for city working women. It is around this time that wings were added to the house, and the barn was converted to a playhouse. The property was used by the Society until it was sold in 1989. The facility is now owned by McLean Hospital, who used it as a drug treatment center.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Princeton Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the 19th century center of Princeton, Massachusetts. The district is centered at the junction of Hubbardston and Mountain Roads, and includes the town common, town hall, public library, and First Congregational Church. When first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, the district encompassed 11 acre, and included only the common, town hall, and library; it was expanded in 2006 to 165 acre, and included much of the village of Princeton Center.</p><br>
<p>The Russell Corner Historic District of Princeton, Massachusetts encompasses a small 19th century commercial center that developed into a summer resort area by the early 20th century. Centered at the intersection of Merriam Road and Gregory Hill Road, the district includes fifteen contributing buildings on 124 acre, which are predominantly residential in nature, and were mostly built before 1830. Some of the properties are found on East Princeton and Sterling Roads, and Bullock Lane. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Both Merriam Road and Gregory Hill Road have been major transportation routes through Princeton; Merriam Road in particular was laid out in part along a Native American path in the mid-17th century. The oldest building in the district is the c. 1748 house of Abijah Wood at 16 Merriam Road, a Georgian house with a late-19th-century wraparound porch. The second house was built c. 1760, probably by Peter Goodnow; portions of this house survive in the building at 49 Gregory Hill Road. John Russell moved to the area in 1787, and soon afterward opened a tavern and inn. His son Charles was an energetic farmer and shopowner who was also active in the town and church; it is for him the area is named. In part through the economic activity of the Russells, a small cluster of houses and businesses arose.</p><br>
<p>The village came to include a schoolhouse in 1810 (now at 43 Gregory Hill Road), and by 1830 eight buildings stood near the intersection, all but one of which still stand. The village was largely bypassed by the resort hotel developments that grew in other parts of Princeton, but smaller scale development of summer residences, including conversion of some of the older buildings, took place in Russell Corner.</p><br>
<p>The Shrewsbury Historic District encompasses the historic early center of the town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. It consists of the town common, laid out in 1721 at what are now Main and Prospect Streets, and buildings adjacent or nearby. The district was declared locally in 1972, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Shrewsbury was settled in 1721 and incorporated in 1727. Its town common was one of the first parts of the town to be laid out, along what was then one of the Boston Post Roads, connecting Boston to Springfield. The area remained residential and civic in character, with the town&#39;s economic center focused on the Post Road (now Main Street) just west of the common. The properties surrounding the common have retained broad lawns and an open character, typical of the 18th and 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The visual focus of the historic district is the First Congregational Church, located at the north end of the common. It was built in 1766, using materials salvaged from the towns first meetinghouse, built on the same site in 1722. West of the church stands the 1830 brick schoolhouse, now housing town offices and the local historical society. On the west side of the common is the towns main firestation, a modern construction, and the much-extended 1797 Sumner House, built for the town&#39;s second minister and now converted into a funeral home. Northeast of the church, at the junction of Boylston and Grafton Streets, and across Grafton Street east of the common, stand three early 19th-century houses. At the junction of Main and Grafton Streets stands the Shrewsbury Public Library, built in 1903 and a fine example of Renaissance Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph Lothrop House is a historic house in Westborough, Massachusetts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as being in the "Shrewsbury vicinity", but Massachusetts cultural inventory identifies its location in Westborough.</p><br>
<p>The Federal style house was built in 1825 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The home was built by Joseph Lothrop, the brother-in-law of Nathan A. Fisher, whose house is across the turnpike. The home is located very close to the center of Wessonville, which was the center of town activity at the time. While built as a residential home, the property was renovated and became a restaurant (Bergson&#39;s).</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the home became the corporate headquarters for Penta Communications.</p><br>
<p>The J.D.C. Bradley House, also known as Oakcrest, is a historic mansion at 5 Sadie Hutt Lane in Southborough, Massachusetts. Built in 1913, the massive, 15,000 ft&sup2; stucco house is one of the finest surviving works of architect Charles Adams Platt in Massachusetts. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, where it is listed at 60 Sears Road.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The J.D.C. Bradley House is located in northern Southborough, at the center of the loop created by Sadie Hutt Lane. It is set at the crest of a rise, which affords views to the west. The house is a -story structure, with a wooden frame and exterior brick walls finished in stucco. It has a large central block 71 ft long and seven bays wide, with symmetrical flanking wings three bays wide. Each section is topped by a hipped roof; the central block has three gable dormers projecting from the front facade. The interior retains most of its original finishes, and includes a library room 32 x in size, sufficient to house 4,000 volumes.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1913 for James Donald Cameron Bradley, as a gift for his bride-to-be Helen Sears from her mother, Sarah Choate Sears. The house, intended as a country estate, was designed by Charles Adams Platt, who was then at the pinnacle of his career. It was built not far from the c. 1897 summer house of the Searses, now at 1 Sears Road. It remained in the Bradley family until 1972, when it was sold to the Southborough School for Girls. The school adapted it for its uses, but only occupied it for a few years. In 1984, the estate was sold to developers, who subdivided the land surrounding the house for residential development.</p><br>
<p>The Weston Aqueduct is an aqueduct operated by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority . Now part of the MWRA backup systems, it was designed to deliver water from the Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham to the Weston Reservoir in Weston. The 13.5 mi aqueduct begins at the Sudbury Dam, and passes through the towns of Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, and Weston. In 1990, the route, buildings and bridges of the aqueduct were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Weston Aqueduct Linear District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Weston Aqueduct was built early in the 20th century during the third phase of the evolution of the Greater Boston water supply system, now administered by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). During this phase, the other major elements of the water supply included the Sudbury Dam and Reservoir, and the Wachusett Aqueduct and Reservoir. The purpose of the aqueduct and Weston Reservoir were to channel water to the suburbs north of Boston via Spot Pond in Stoneham. The aqueduct was built between 1901 and 1903, under the supervision of Frederic P. Stearns, the chief engineer of the MWRA predecessor, the Metropolitan Water Board. The buildings that shelter the aqueducts above-ground elements were designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. The landscaping of the aqueducts open channel was (along with other elements of the Weston Reservoir) designed by the Olmsted Brothers.</p><br>
<p>The functions of the Weston Aqueduct and Reservoir have been taken over by the Hultman Aqueduct, built in 1941, and the MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel, completed in 2003. They continue to be held by the MWRA as emergency-use facilities along with the Chestnut Hill Reservoir and Sudbury Aqueduct.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The aqueduct is a water channel that runs mostly underground, through a structure that is about 13 ft high and 12 ft wide. The cross section is roughly horseshoe-shaped, with a concrete base, side walls lined in brick, and an unlined concrete arch. There are two chambers where water flow through the aqueduct is metered: both are located in Framingham, and consist of a concrete substructure, on top of which stands a small building housing equipment. These are 14 ft square, made of ashlar granite, with predominantly orange coloring, and pink-gray quoins.</p><br>
<p>There are two siphon sections where the aqueduct cross low spots in the terrain. The western of these crosses the Sudbury River, and consists of a steel pipe 3,605 ft in length that is built over the river as an arch mounted on stone abutments; the eastern one crosses Happy Hollow and under Massachusetts Route 126, and is 1,100 ft long. At each end of the siphons stands a control house that is 21 ft square, styled similarly to the metering chambers. At the Weston end of the aqueduct is a channel chamber, a 17 x hip-roofed structure from which the flow into the open channel can be regulated. The open channel is 1,500 ft feet long and about 20 ft wide, and is lined with riprap. The open channel is spanned by the Ash Street Bridge, a concrete arch bridge faced in stone. The Weston Reservoir was carefully designed by the Olmsted Brothers to appear natural; the final element of the aqueduct is the terminal chamber near the reservoir outlet, from which distribution pipes channel the water onward. The building housing the terminal chamber is larger and more elaborate than the other structures, but is similarly styled.</p><br>
<p>The Spencer Town Center Historic District encompasses the historic downtown of Spencer, Massachusetts. When first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the district covered 250 acre centered on Main Street between High and North Streets. A major expansion, the East Main Street – Cherry Street Historic District, added 45 acre of a predominantly residential area east of the center. The district was expanded twice in 2003, adding residential areas along Grove, Prouty, Pleasant, High, and Main Streets, and industrial areas on Cherry, Wall, and Mechanic Streets, as well as Luther Hill Park. The main period of historic interest is the peak period of Spencer&#39;s industrial history in the last quarter of the 19th century, although there are a significant number of properties that predate this period.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The town of Spencer was settled in the 1720s and incorporated in 1753. Main Street, now Massachusetts Route 9, was essentially a former Native American trail that served English colonists as a major east-west route since the 17th century. At first strung out along Main Street, the town center grew at the junction of Main with Pleasant and Maple Streets (Massachusetts Route 31), which provided transport to the communities north and south of the village. The town remained economically agricultural until the 19th century, when the Embargo Act of 1807 spurred industrial development. Business engage in the manufacture of textiles, wires, and boots arose in the following years, spurring growth in population, housing, and supporting businesses. Textile manufacturing in particular was concentrated just south of Main Street, resulting in early growth of housing to the east and west. Later in the 19th century, as bootmaking changed from a cottage industry to a centralized one, the center again grew to accommodate workers at boot factories.</p><br>
<p>The Grove Street School is a historic school building at 23 Grove Street in Spencer, Massachusetts. The -story brick building was built in two phases: in the first phase in 1876, a single story was built. It was full to overflowing by 1878, and in 1883 the second story was built, designed by Fuller & Delano. It is a T-shaped building, whose main body is a horizontal rectangle, with a projecting central pavilion. The three roof gable ends are jerkin-headed, and are decorated with bargeboard and heavy brackets.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996,</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Street School is a historic school building on Pleasant Street in Ayer, Massachusetts. It is a -story Colonial Revival building, with a hip roof pierced by wide gabled dormers with bands of small windows. It was constructed in 1893 to a design by Boston architect Charles E. Parks and is one of the oldest school buildings in the town. It was enlarged in 1906, doubling it in size. It served as a public school until 1984.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sterling Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the central village of Sterling, Massachusetts. The district is roughly bounded by Meetinghouse Hill and Main, Maple and Kendall Hill, Boulding, Worcester and Princeton Street. The town common, which is the focal point of the district, was laid out in 1724, when the area was still part of Lancaster. The area includes 18th- and 19th-century houses, as well as several church buildings, and the 1835 town hall.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The West Sutton Historic District encompasses the rural southwestern section of Sutton, Massachusetts, United States, including the rural village of West Sutton, which stretches along Central Turnpike from Manchaug Road to the Oxford town line. Most of its 460 acre are taken up by farmsteads and the associated agricultural lands. The village, which consists primarily of residential properties from the 18th and 19th centuries, also includes a church, cemetery, former tavern, former school, and evidence of an early industrial past, including one extant sawmill which dates to 1831.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Waters Farm is a historic farm and homestead at 53 Waters Road in Sutton, Massachusetts. Waters Farm was built in the Georgian style by Stephen Waters in 1757. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1757, Waters Farms Preservation, Inc. now maintains the property. It has 120 acre of protected watershed land donated to the town by Dorothea Waters Moran in 1974. The main house was built in the mid- to late 18th century and was also donated to the town. Most outbuildings were donated or constructed on site after the town received the property, including a blacksmith shop, shingle mill, barn, wagon shed and sugar house.</p><br>
<p>From 1871 to 1912, the businessman Charles Andrew Whitney resided at Waters Farms.</p><br>
<p>Today, Waters Farms is an open-air museum.</p><br>
<p>The Freegrace Marble Farm Historic District encompasses a historic farmstead in Sutton, Massachusetts. Although most of its buildings date to the 19th century, the farm has retained the form of a typical 18th-century farm, including a substantial portion of the land granted in 1717 to Freegrace Marble, one of Sutton&#39;s earliest colonial settlers. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Freegrace Marble Farm is located in a rural area of northern Sutton, its complex of buildings located at the junction of Burbank and Sibley Roads. The farm covers about 63 acre, which is divided roughly equally between open land (for meadows and intensive agriculture), and woodlands. Stone walls line many elements of the property, with particularly well-formed ones lining the road near the farmstead. A family cemetery is located near the northern edge of the property; although its oldest readable marker is dated 1786, it is known to include the grave of the farm&#39;s founder Freegrace Marble, who died in 1775. The farm complex consists of a 1-1/2 story Cape style plank-framed house, set on the south side of the street junction. Across the street to the north stands a cluster of two barns and a toolshed.</p><br>
<p>The area that is now Sutton was settled by English colonists in the 1710s, the land having been purchased from the Nipmuc Indians in 1704. Freegrace Marble was one of thirty settlers to arrive in the new community in 1717, and settled on a farm of more than 250 acre. The core of his holding, including his original farmhouse (no longer extant, believed to stand west of the present house), passed to his son Malachi upon his death in 1775. Malachi built the present house, in which he raised twelve children. The core of the farm remained in the hands of Marble descendants until 1895. Its form, with the farm buildings across the road from the house, is a typical 18th-century form, differing from the 19th-century connected farmstead, where the house is connected to the barn via a series of ells.</p><br>
<p>The Sutton Center Historic District is a historic district encompassing the center of the village of Sutton, Massachusetts. The district, which covers 435 acre, is centered on the junction of Boston Road, Singletary Avenue, and Uxbridge Road. Boston Road is a major east–west route through the town, and the other two roads run north–south through the village center. The Colombian building was built in 1957. A typically rural village center, its civic and institutional buildings are clustered near the intersection on its south side, in the general area of the town common. The town common and cemetery were laid out in 1719, after settlement of the township began in 1716. There are a few surviving houses that date to the middle of the 18th century or earlier; exact dates for most are uncertain. There are only a few institutional buildings: the 1829 Congregational Church, the 1983 Town Hall, built on the site of the town&#39;s first purpose-built town hall , and Rufus Putnam Hall, an 1824 school building and Masonic lodge that now houses the local history museum. Only one commercial structure the 1839 Brick Block, stands in the village. There is also a historic animal pound, a rectangular stone structure used to pen stray livestock, which dates to the early days of the town.</p><br>
<p>Most of the district consists of residential and rural properties. The residential housing stock dates from the 18th to the 20th century, featuring a diversity of architectural styles. There are a significant number of 19th century farm outbuildings that have survived, predominantly barns. There are in all more than 120 contributing resources.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver Wight House is a historic house located on Main Street  in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Built in the 1780s, the house was first occupied by local cabinet maker Oliver Wight and his family. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The Georgian style dwelling was operated as a motor lodge by Old Sturbridge Village until 2006, and again from 2012-2020.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Oliver Wight was born in Medway, Massachusetts on September 27, 1765. He married Harmony Child in Sturbridge on July 5, 1786, and they had eleven children, ten of whom survived to adulthood. Portraits of Oliver and Harmony Wight, attributed to the Beardsley Limner, can be found in the collections of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Colonial Williamsburg. Oliver Wight died in Sturbridge on October 22, 1837.</p><br>
<p>Oliver Wight acquired his property in Sturbridge from his father, David Wight, and built his house near those of his father and his brothers, David Jr. and Alpheus. In addition to the house, he constructed a sizable shop on the property, where he engaged in his craft.</p><br>
<p>A cabinet maker by trade, Oliver Wight made chairs, tables, chests of drawers, bedsteads, and other wood furniture. He created pieces on commission and sold his work locally. Despite his abilities, he struggled with insolvency for much of his life. An article in the Massachusetts Spy in September, 1793, advertised a public auction of his finished pieces and household goods, as he had “absconded.” His Sturbridge farm was offered for sale in 1795.</p><br>
<p>Ebenezer Howard, another cabinet maker, bought the property from Oliver Wight and operated it as a tavern. He resided there until his death. Thereafter, George Wight, great grand-nephew of Oliver Wight, occupied the house. It remained in the family until A. B. Wells purchased it in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The Oliver Wight House underwent major renovation of its heating and plumbing systems in 1948, in preparation for becoming a sales and visitor center for Old Sturbridge Village. In 1950, Wells and his associates decided to make the Oliver Wight House into a motor lodge, and had several motel units built. It continued in this capacity until 2006, when it was closed to the public. but closed again during the COVID-19 pandemic. Old Sturbridge Village named their Oliver Wight Tavern to recognize the historic use of the nearby Oliver Wight House as a tavern (restaurant).</p><br>
<h2>Art and Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original portion of the Oliver Wight House is a five bay Georgian style dwelling with a hipped-gable roof. An ell at the rear of the house was added later. It has two internal chimneys and clapboard facing. Each of the exterior doors are flanked by pilasters and topped with an entablature. An early twentieth-century account of the house describes its layout as a tavern with a bar room and a dance hall, as well as diamond pane windows. All of these features were gone by 1937.</p><br>
<p>The walls of the first floor hall are decorated with a mural in muted tones created by noted American folk artist Rufus Porter. These were likely painted during Ebenezer Howard&#39;s ownership. Motifs include rolling hills dotted with houses, a windmill, a steamboat on a river, and a variety of vegetation.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Sawyer Homestead was a historic house at 108 Maple Street in Sterling, Massachusetts. With an estimated construction date of 1756, the house was one of Sterlings oldest surviving structures, before it was destroyed by an arsonist in 2007. It was also notable as the birthplace of Mary Sawyer, who alleged she was the subject of the American childrens nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The Sawyer family, whose descendants still own the property, have had a reproduction of the house built on its site.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sawyer Homestead is located in rural eastern Sterling, at the junction of Maple Street and Rugg Road. It is a -story Cape style wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with an off-center interior chimney, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. The main entrance is in the second bay from the left. A single-story gabled ell extends to the rear. The property included, prior to the rebuilding effort, an early 20th-century Federal Revival outbuilding, and a barn was located across Rugg Road. The barn was also destroyed by an arsonist, in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The original house had a complex evolutionary construction history, dictated by the changing demands of the Sawyer family, who occupied the house for more than 250 years. The traditional historical claim is that the core of the house was built in 1756 by Ezra Sawyer, Jr., who died while serving in the American Revolutionary War. Sawyer&#39;s granddaughter Mary is believed to be the girl described in the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," attributed to Sarah Josepha Hale. Sawyers lived in the house until 1889, and owned it and the surrounding farmland for most of that time as well. The property then stood vacant and deteriorating, but remained the property of a Sawyer family trust.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Hastings House is a historic house at 20 Squareshire Road in Sterling, Massachusetts. Built in 1794, this -story house is believed to be the earliest brick house built in what is now Sterling. The brick is laid in Flemish bond on the front facade, and in English bond on the other three sides, and there are four large end-wall chimneys. A kitchen ell, dating to the 20th century, extends from the rear of the house. Most of its styling  is Federal, although some Greek Revival styling was added in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The San Francisco Bay Discovery Site is a marker commemorating the first recorded European sighting of San Francisco Bay. In 1769, the Portola expedition traveled north by land from San Diego, seeking to establish a base at the Port of Monterey described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. When they reached Monterey, however, they were not sure it was the right place and decided to continue north. The party reached San Pedro Creek on October 31 and camped there for four nights, while scouts led by José Francisco Ortega climbed Sweeney Ridge, where they could see over the ridge toward the east, and so became the first Europeans to see San Francisco Bay on November 1.</p><br>
<p>The scouts returned on November 3, and led the entire party up to the ridge on November 4. Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi noted in his diary, "from the summit of a peak we beheld the great estuary or arm of the sea." After seeing the immense bay to the east, and having learned from the scouts that further progress to the north would be blocked by the Golden Gate, the party turned southeast and descended toward the bay.</p><br>
<p>Sweeney Ridge is located in northern San Mateo County and is now a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The site is both a California Historical Landmark and a National Historic Landmark. The spot chosen for the marker is somewhat arbitrary, as the precise location where Portola&#39;s party reached the summit of the ridge is not known. The landmarked area encompasses two of the highest knolls on the ridge.</p><br>
<p>As of October 2020, the marker has been vandalized, with Portolà’s name and the date of the discovery chiseled away.</p><br>
<p>The Kruger House  is a historic building located at 10292 Donner Pass Road, in Truckee, Nevada County, northern California.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was built in 1873–1874 by W. H. Kruger, who was then a partner in the Truckee Lumber Company. It was originally designed as a single-family residence, in the Queen Anne Eastlake Victorian style. It served as a hotel in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The restored building currently houses a restaurant and specialty store, in the Brickelltown neighborhood west of downtown Truckee. In 1982 it was registered with the California Office of Historic Preservation, and added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Kruger family</h3><br>
<p>The mansion was built by William Henry Kruger for his wife and eventually six children. It is reported that Mr. Kruger imported fourteen Austrian craftsmen for the project. Henry Kruger was born in Germany on April 9, 1830, and came to America in 1852. While engaged in mining, mercantile pursuits, and the sawmill business, he lived in Grass Valley, Dutch Flat, and finally, Truckee, where he became half-owner of the very large and successful Truckee Lumber Company with E. J. Brickell (the namesake of that part of town). His partnership with Mr. Brickell involved one of the most efficient and progressive mills in the area, in addition to a supply house offering the latest and best materials available for construction, decorating, and furnishing for the most discriminating customers.</p><br>
<p>Henry Kruger died June 27, 1891, leaving his fortune, which by then had grown to an estimated million 1891 dollars, to his wife and children. Mary Adella Richardson Kruger lived until the age of 93, dying on November 3, 1940. Nearly all of Kruger&#39;s surviving grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren are living in California today.</p><br>
<h3>White family</h3><br>
<p>Charles Bernard White, a Bank of America executive and prominent Truckee citizen, purchased the home in November 1904 for his wife Belle and infant son C. B. White, Junior. Belle White, in her youth, was a Sacramento Beauty Queen, and also a noted concert pianist, offering instruction in their home for many decades. The Truckee old-timers still speak of the massive piano and other exquisite furnishings that adorned the White House. He was later deeply involved in the Lincoln Highway through the Truckee Project. Barney White Jr. later attended the University of California, Berkeley, becoming a well-regarded Sacramento civil engineer, and was a long-time leader of the Sacramento Banjo-Players&#39; Association.</p><br>
<p>It was during the early 1900s that the White family opened their home to help alleviate the local lodging shortage: from 1912 to the late twenties, the White House Hotel catered to the first automobile traffic over Donner Pass Summit, which included many notable early Lake Tahoe residents and preservationists; for instance D. L. Bliss, his and numerous signatures of other wealthy and famous can be found in the original White House Hotel Register, beginning July 1912. After the late 1920s, the home returned to use as a single-family residence. It eventually suffered a period of vacancy and deterioration through the mid-20th century.</p><br>
<h3>Krakowsky Restoration</h3><br>
<p>Under the direction of Zena Krakowsky, a long-time Truckee resident and progressive businessperson, the mansion underwent an extensive and painstakingly precise seven-year rehabilitation, with attention being paid to every detail, including closely matching the Axminster carpet, wallpaper to reflect the originals, and custom-mixed paints to tie the interior architecture together. All parts were refurbished, including molding, fretwork, and stained-glass windows.</p><br>
<p>During the project, the building was transparently upgraded to commercial code in preparation for Ms. Krakowsky&#39;s opening of the building to the public in 1980 as an antique shop and fine-dining establishment. In 1982, based on the quality of rehabilitation and preservation, the Kruger-White House received the honor of being the first property in the area to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. On 17 June 1982, it was registered with the California Office of Historic Preservation and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#82002220). She operated businesses in the Kruger-White House from 1973 to 1995.</p><br>
<p>After the home was rehabilitated, the original White House Hotel Sign, the hotel register (July 1912—forward), and other historic items discovered in the basement during rehabilitation were donated to the Truckee-Donner Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>BIGELOW/THAYER -- SAVING THE BUILDING FROM DECAY</p><br>
<p>In 2015 Tanya Thayer and Aaron Bigelow purchased the CB White House. The White House was in extremely poor condition, and rotting literally into the ground, as was the historic adjacent building the old Carriage House. After decades and decades of little to no maintenance and extreme neglect, the buildings had begun to rot and collapse. With extensive experience in historic building repair, refurbishment, and restoration of pre-1900 built structures, Aaron Bigelow of Bigelow Construction began the painstaking and challenging task of saving this piece of Truckee History. The goal was to restore as much as could be restored to the original. Using old photographs and with the help of the Truckee Historic Society Bigelow/Thayer began this daunting task. In the Town of Truckee, the building is zoned and categorized as one of if not the most important historic structures in the Town. It is the oldest still standing original location mansion/home, and one of the least modified structures from the original in the Town of Truckee. The Town of Truckee is now an incorporated area with a Town Council and a Historic Preservation Advisory Committee ( HPAC ) that offers advice and opinions on proposed changes and restoration methods. This began in 1993 with the Town Incorporation and the advent of the HPAC board. Before this most buildings of historical value had no protections and many were snatched up by developers and heavily modified if not completely demolished to build something in its place with no regard for preservation and no agency to stop them. The White House narrowly survived this fate and now sits with protections. However, those protections as well-intentioned as they may be, come with variations of opinions and advisory boards that do not always agree with the ultimate goal and efforts in preservation methods. So the task began and administratively had many hurdles and challenges. After a few years of planning, meetings, negotiating, and diligence, the project was given the green light to go! And thus the major renovation and restoration began. Every attention to detail was carefully planned to remove, restore, and replace architecture features to exact as-is/as-is conditions. With the benefit of modern construction materials and practices a better built better engineered building was achieved - while still keeping with the original architecture moldings and trim details to hide its inner skeleton of modern construction materials.</p><br>
<p>Regardless of the investment, no expense was spared in making sure the historic home was refurbished the right way and it would last for another 140 years. The Bigelow/Thayer goal was not to invest and walk away with monetary gains - but rather to purchase and steward the historic structure for generations to come to enjoy this very rare and very quickly disappearing piece of old Truckee History. One cannot walk by without stopping and looking at the White House for a moment or two - and think back to the time when she was a young home and a centerpiece of a booming lumber, ice, and railroad town. Imagine the era with hard-working men and women in this Alpine frontier. Horse and buggy was the mode of travel, and the telegraph was the eras only way to hear of the outside worlds events. How many things in history the Historic structure has lived through. Many generations of events and change. To stand and think of this is truly humbling and a bit romantic. The Bigelow/Thayer team is very pleased to be blessed with the opportunity to step up and make this small investment into a vital part of Truckees and Californias historical preservation. We hope that anyone who has a chance to stop by and see this amazing part of living history will take a moment and walk around the property and buildings and imagine with us a time long gone but not forgotten.</p><br>
<p>Allenhurst, also known as Oakland, is an historic site located in Scott County, Kentucky west of Georgetown on Cane Run Pike. The Greek Revival house, designed by Thomas Lewinski, was built in 1850. The property was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1837, William G. and Polly Craig acquired property west of Georgetown in Scott County, Kentucky from William Suggett, Polly&#39;s father. Craig was a Baptist minister and faculty member at Georgetown College. He constructed a Greek Revival mansion on the land in 1850 and called it Oakland.</p><br>
<p>According to local legend, as recounted by Ann Bolton in A History of Scott County as Told by Selected Buildings (1989), Craig called on his cousin to act as contractor for construction of the mansion. Newton Craig, superintendent of the Kentucky State Penitentiary, had the house built by convict labor. The superintendent earned $21,826 and the state $37,899 in the transaction.</p><br>
<p>H.C. Allen, known for developing the first American Aberdeen Angus cattle herd, purchased the property and renamed it Allenhurst.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Allenhurst was designed by Thomas Lewinski, known as one of the leading architects of the Greek Revival style. The exterior of the structure exhibits one of the most complete uses of the temple-style facade in Central Kentucky. The pillared house has a two-story high portico with four columns, and fluted Doric columns paired on each side of central entrance. The temple-style design features "triple windows set under stone lintels that are repeated even on the basement level."</p><br>
<p>A pillared smokehouse with a hipped roof is located north of the great house.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Chapoton House is a Queen Anne style row house located at 511 Beaubien Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Alexander Chapoton</h2><br>
<p>Alexander Chapoton was a descendant of one of the oldest Detroit families. His ancestor Jean Chapoton was a surgeon in the French army, and was assigned to Fort Pontchartrain, arriving in 1719. Jean remained in Detroit until his death in 1762.</p><br>
<p>Years later, Jeans descendant Alexander Chapoton inherited his father Eustaches masonry business and a fortune to go along with it. He later expanded his business and became an important contractor in Detroit, helping to build several commercial blocks and residences, including the Globe Tobacco Building. He also served on the Water Board and was appointed to a commission that selected an architect for the Michigan state capitol. Chapoton&#39;s son, Alexander Jr., joined the family business and eventually inherited a greater fortune than his father had.</p><br>
<p>Chapoton built this house in the late 1870s as rental property. However, Chapoton himself lived in the home until his death in 1893.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The house is a three-story brick building with its foundation placed at the edge of the sidewalk. The stone-faced basement raises the first floor several feet off the ground. The facade is asymmetrical, with a three-bay first floor upper floors of differing height. The brick and stone hoods over the windows vary from floor to floor. It is believed that the first and second stories were once separated by cast iron panels which were removed during renovation.</p><br>
<p>The interior floor plan is unusual, having space for Victorian Living hall. The interior still retains the original trim, staircase and parlor fireplace.</p><br>
<h2>Later years</h2><br>
<p>When this house was built, it was one of a row of similar homes on Beaubien. In the years following the house&#39;s construction, the area around it was cleared for commercial development. The development was especially prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s; as a result, only a few row houses remain. The Alexander Chapoton House is one of the last examples of Queen Anne style row houses in the city.</p><br>
<p>The house was used as a rooming house for several decades. In the 1980s, it was purchased and renovated. Currently, the first floor is art gallery, studios are located in the basement and offices are on the upper floors.</p><br>
