Wheelockville District
Wheelockville District is a district in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1984.
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- Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts
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History
The Wheelockville District is an historic district located at Mendon and Henry streets in the village of Wheelockville in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It encompasses a collection of modest Federal and Greek Revival period worker housing, built primarily to house families of workers at the nearby Waucantuck Mill Complex. The oldest houses in the area were built c. 1825–35, and include cottages built by the mill owners. A second phase of growth between about 1860 and 1885 resulted in the construction of a number of buildings with vernacular Victorian elements, as well as the somewhat more ornate Italianate Wheelock House at 173 Mendon Street, which was built for a manager at another Uxbridge mill. The district runs roughly along Mendon Street (Massachusetts Route 16) from Hecla Street to the junction of Mendon and Henry Streets, and then along those two streets for about six houses.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The official nomination form is linked under Sources.
Other listings in Uxbridge
- Adams, Benjamin, House Building · listed 1983
- Albee, E., House Building · listed 1983
- Aldrich, Daniel, Cottage and Sawmill Building · listed 1983
- Aldrich, J., House Building · listed 1984
- Aldrich, S., House Building · listed 1983
- Aldrich, W., House Building · listed 1983
- Bank Building Building · listed 1983
- Brown, E., House Building · listed 1983
- Butler Block Building · listed 1983
- Capron, Charles, House Building · listed 1983
- Carpenter, George, House Building · listed 1983
- Central Woolen Mills District District · listed 1984
- Chapin, A., House Building · listed 1983
- Cook, A. E., House Building · listed 1983
- Deane, Francis, Cottage Building · listed 1983
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