Built 1927 NRHP Reference # 89000553 Area 6 ha Added to NRHP 22 June 1989 | MPS Southbridge MRA Opened 1927 Architectural style Renaissance architecture | |
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Location 491 Eastford Rd., Southbridge, Massachusetts Similar Wellfleet Drive‑In Theater, Notre Dame Catholic, Southbridge Town Hall | ||
The John M. Wells House is a historic house at 491 Eastford Road in Southbridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Wells family were the founders of the American Optical Company, a leading business in Southbridge. The house John M. Wells had built in 1927 was reminiscent of a French chateau, and was the first to be built in the Cohasse Farms section of Southbridge. The only previous development in the rural area had been the development of the Cohasse Country Club in 1919. Wells' brother George would build a more modern house nearby in 1932.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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