Built 1855 NRHP Reference # 89000542 Added to NRHP 22 June 1989 | MPS Southbridge MRA Opened 1855 | |
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Location 16 High St., Southbridge, Massachusetts Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar Wellfleet Drive‑In Theater, Notre Dame Catholic, Southbridge Town Hall | ||
The Hamilton Mill Brick House is a historic house at 16 High Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built c. 1855 by the Hamilton Woolen Mill Company, it is one of a small number of brick company housing units to survive from that time. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Description and history
The Hamilton Mill Brick House on the west side of High Street, just south of Main Street and west of High Street's junction with Ash Street. Facing north, the house is a 2-1/2 story brick structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and single off-center brick chimney. It has a granite sills and lintels, and a recessed front door with sidelight and transom windows. A secondary entrance on the north side, which is three bays wide, is sheltered by a gabled porch.
Although brick was not a house building material commonly used in Southbridge when this house was built c. 1855, most of the worker housing built by the Hamilton Woolen Mill Company was. This is one of a few surviving brick houses of the period in Southbridge (the other, the Vinton-Torrey House, is also listed, but is a farmhouse outside the downtown and industrial area). Many other instances of the company's housing in the High and Sayles Street have since been demolished, but this one and the Hamilton Millwright-Agent's House survive. This house was still in company ownership at the turn of the 20th century, and was probably used to house senior company management.