{"nrhp_refnum":"80000510","name":"Indian Hill-North Village","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"properties along Ararat St. and Delaval, Heroult, Marconi, Watt, and Westinghouse Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Worcester","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.31304700000004,"lon":-71.81250713380277,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Indian Hill-North Village is a planned workers' housing district on the north slope of Indian Hill in Worcester, Massachusetts, built around 1916-1918 for the Norton Company during World War I.","why_significant":"It is Worcester's largest planned community of workers' housing and a rare example of company-built housing in a city where such housing was virtually non-existent. The Norton Company aimed to give employees the chance to own homes in a healthful environment, which makes the village an important local effort in community planning.","narrative":"Indian Hill-North Village is a planned neighborhood of workers' cottages on the north slope of Indian Hill in Worcester. Built around 1916-1918 for the Norton Company, the city's largest employer, it grew from the company's effort to create an industrial village where employees could own their homes. About ninety-four houses were built quickly, with cellar holes reportedly dynamited for speed. The layout is nearly symmetrical and trapezoidal, organized around a broad tree-lined parkway crossed by Watt and Heroult Roads. Most buildings are simple one-and-one-half-storey cottages with steeply pitched slate roofs, clapboard first floors and shingled upper floors. Two larger buildings on Watt Road once held a community store and a community hall. Four ranch houses built after 1960 do not contribute to the district's character. The village is significant because company-owned workers' housing was otherwise virtually absent in Worcester, and the project reflected an early local commitment to community planning and healthful living conditions.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1916-1918","architect_builder":"Plans likely prepared for Grosvenor Atterbury of New York (not confirmed); built for the Norton Company through its subsidiary, the Indian Hill Company","architectural_style":"Astylistic cottages","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in good condition and in residential use; most cottages remain substantially unaltered, though some have minor alterations such as enclosed porches.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.402871-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/7932/63793225/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/80000510.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000510/97f6dcffac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80000510/97f6dcffac-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_IndianHill_WattRoad.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorcesterMA_IndianHill_WattRoad.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793225","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Hill-North_Village","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6020449"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/indian-hill-north-village-80000510/"}