{"nrhp_refnum":"71000092","name":"Rogerson's Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N and S sides of Hartford Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Uxbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.09290150000007,"lon":-71.63569925458137,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-11-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural cotton mill village district on both sides of Hartford Avenue in North Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, centered on the stone Crown (1823-25) and Eagle (1827) Mills along the Mumford River. Robert Rogerson built the mills and associated structures in the 1820s and 30s.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a nearly complete, largely unaltered early 19th-century rural cotton manufacturing community. It is described as the only complex of this quality remaining in the Massachusetts portion of the Blackstone Valley. Its buildings represent types common to early mill villages, and the grouping of buildings with the natural terrain is part of its significance.","narrative":"Rogerson's Village is a cotton mill community in North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, arranged along Hartford Avenue and the Mumford River. Its focal point is the pair of stone mills, the Crown (1823-25) and the Eagle (1827), joined by a brick unit of 1851 that spans the river. Nearby are a brick community center with a store, meeting space and tenements, rows of brick workers' cottages, wooden tenements, an owner's house called Gray Rock, and a brick machine shop and storage building. The district was listed because it preserves a nearly complete early 19th-century manufacturing village with few removals or additions since production ended. The Crown Mill is described as the oldest surviving stone mill with a clerestory-monitor roof in Massachusetts, and the village is called the only complex of its quality left in the state's Blackstone Valley. Buildings are grouped by function and placed to suit the terrain, with the mills set apart across a meadow. Fire severely damaged the mills in 1975.","period_of_significance":"19th Century; 1823 and following","architect_builder":"Robert Rogerson (builder of the mills and associated structures)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described in 1971 as in good condition overall: brick tenements in fine condition, earliest mill-tenement covered with asbestos siding, and the community center empty. Later correspondence reports the Crown and Eagle Mills severely damaged by fire in October 1975.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:54.62003-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/7974/63797400/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/71000092.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000092/1c1d90ab34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000092/1c1d90ab34-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Ksherin (talk)K. Sherin","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crown%26EagleMillUxbridge_101.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ksherin (talk)K. Sherin</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crown%26EagleMillUxbridge_101.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797400","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogerson%27s_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7359363"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/rogersons-village-historic-district-71000092/"}