{"nrhp_refnum":"84002126","name":"Hebronville Mill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Knight Ave., Read and Phillip Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Attleboro","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.90502150000006,"lon":-71.31994839178404,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 10.5-acre industrial village district in southwestern Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts, centered on the Hebron Manufacturing Company cotton mill (begun 1854) with company-built tenements, a church, a store and a bridge along Knight Avenue and the Ten Mile River.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is historically significant as one of two 19th-century industrial villages developed by the Rhode Island firm B.B. & R. Knight Company to support Attleboro's textile industry. It is architecturally significant for an excellent mid-19th-century Second Empire textile mill and associated workers' housing forming a planned industrial community.","narrative":"Hebronville Mill Historic District is a small industrial village in southwestern Attleboro, Massachusetts, built around a cotton textile mill on the Ten Mile River. The B.B. & R. Knight Company of Providence acquired an earlier mill site in 1853, and its Hebron Manufacturing Company mill began operating in July 1854. The brick Second Empire complex grew over about fifty years with additional wings, a company office, powerhouse and warehouses. Around it the company built wood-frame tenements, mostly between 1854 and 1874, along with a store and post office, a Methodist church completed in 1883 and a stone arch bridge. The district holds 38 properties, 36 of which contribute to its character. It is considered important as one of two industrial villages the Knight firm developed in Attleboro and as a well-preserved planned mill community. The mill closed, later housed a hose recycling operation, and now stands vacant and deteriorated, while the homes and church remain in use.","period_of_significance":"1854 onward (specific date given as 1854 +; 19th and 20th centuries checked)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Empire (mill); Greek Revival tenements; Italianate; Gothic Revival; Stick Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill complex is vacant and deteriorated, with rehabilitation for elderly housing proposed. The church still serves its original use, and most other buildings are residences.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.417045-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7943/63794392/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002126.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002126/1213ba8143-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002126/1213ba8143-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hebronville_Mill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hebronville_Mill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794392","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebronville_Mill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5696087"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/hebronville-mill-historic-district-84002126/"}