{"nrhp_refnum":"02000635","name":"Hopedale Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Milford Town Line, Malquin Dr., Mendon Town Line and Upton Town Line","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hopedale","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.13574100000005,"lon":-71.54870030535238,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-06-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Industry","Landscape Architecture","Religion","Social History","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic district in the town center of Hopedale, Worcester County, Massachusetts, centered on the Draper Corporation industrial complex. It also includes institutional buildings, industrialists' estates, company housing subdivisions, parks and a cemetery, with 646 contributing resources.","why_significant":"The district reflects Hopedale's development from a utopian community founded in 1841 into a model industrial company town shaped by the Draper family. It contains the largest concentration of the town's historic development, including planned worker housing and landscapes designed by Warren Manning and Arthur Shurtleff.","narrative":"Hopedale Village Historic District covers the center of a suburban-industrial town in the Mill River Valley, about thirty-three miles southwest of Boston. The area grew from the Hopedale Community, a utopian settlement founded in 1841, and later developed under the Draper family as a model company town. At its center is the Draper Corporation plant beside Hopedale Pond. Around it are streets laid out in the 1840s, houses from Greek Revival cottages to Second Empire, Shingle and Colonial Revival homes, mill proprietors' estates on Adin Street, and institutional buildings. Company housing groups built around the turn of the twentieth century used street layouts by landscape architects Warren Manning and Arthur Shurtleff. Parks such as The Parklands, Town Park and Adin Ballou Memorial Park add designed landscapes. The district contains 646 contributing resources and is significant for its record of community planning, industry and architecture from 1841 to 1955.","period_of_significance":"1841-1955","architect_builder":"Warren Henry Manning, Arthur Shurtleff (Shurcliff), George R. Clarke, J. Pickering Putnam, Chapman and Frazer, Ordway Partridge, Dillon Brothers","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Romanesque Revival, Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne, Renaissance Revival, Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mixed continuing uses including residential, school, library, government, religious, commercial and industrial; some resources are listed as vacant or not in use, and an assisted living complex is noted.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.873602-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/60/7973/63797360/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/02000635.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000635/e1a2c0cad9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000635/e1a2c0cad9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"John Phelan, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hopedale_Unitarian_Parish,_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797360","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopedale_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5899814"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/hopedale-village-historic-district-02000635/"}