{"nrhp_refnum":"03000550","name":"Central Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Central, Quaker, West, Chesley, Bow, Prospect & Fletcher Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millville","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.02466300000006,"lon":-71.58397917539101,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-06-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Engineering","Industry","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Millville, Worcester County, Massachusetts, running the length of Central Street and parts of Quaker, West, Chesley, Bow, Prospect and Fletcher Streets. It holds 109 contributing and 13 noncontributing resources dating from the 1730s to the 1920s.","why_significant":"The district is a concentrated, compact record of a small 19th-century Blackstone River mill village. It combines mill-owner mansions, worker duplexes and cottages, churches, a school and remnants of canal, railroad and mill sites. The architecture ranges from a ca. 1750 center-chimney house to Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Bungalow buildings, reflecting the town's industrial and social growth.","narrative":"Central Street and its side streets form the historic core of Millville, a Blackstone River mill village near the Rhode Island border. The district includes 109 contributing resources: houses, churches, a school, outbuildings, and the sites of vanished mills and canal remnants. Its oldest building is the Collins Capron House, a ca. 1750 two-story center-chimney house with a pedimented entry. Greek Revival mansions, including the Edward Hall House with its Doric portico, stand near modest worker duplexes on Bow and West Streets and small gable-front cottages laid out on Chesley Street in 1864. St. John's Episcopal Church, built in 1850 from designs by Richard Upjohn, was paid for largely by mill owner Edward Hall. St. Mark's Lutheran Church was built in 1892 by Swedish mill workers. Together the buildings show how mill owners, workers and transportation links such as the Blackstone Canal and railroads shaped the village from 1732 into the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"1732 to the 1920s (first documented mill site in 1732 to Bungalow cottages on Quaker Street in the 1920s); exact date range not given in the excerpt","architect_builder":"Richard Upjohn (St. John's Episcopal Church); Daniel Simmons (believed builder of Longfellow School)","architectural_style":"Colonial; Greek Revival, Gothic Revival; Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne; Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district remains in residential, commercial, government and religious use. The early mills, the railroad station and some churches no longer exist.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.601295-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7973/63797350/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/03000550.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000550/0127c4e322-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000550/0127c4e322-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Udor_Tower_Millville.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797350","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Street_Historic_District_(Millville,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5061873"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/central-street-historic-district-03000550/"}