{"nrhp_refnum":"84002920","name":"Uxbridge Common District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main,Court, and Douglas Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uxbridge","county":"Worcester County","state":"MA","lat":42.07717950000006,"lon":-71.63039474551967,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 8 acres around the Common in Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, centered on Court, Douglas and North Main Streets. It includes buildings dating from about 1768 to 1914.","why_significant":"The district has been Uxbridge's civic center since the first meetinghouse was built on the Common in 1729. It preserves local examples of Federalist, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Second Empire and Italianate architecture. It also holds buildings tied to the town's mercantile, industrial and institutional development.","narrative":"Uxbridge Common and the streets around it form an eight-acre district that has served as the town's civic and residential center since the first meetinghouse went up in 1729. Court, Douglas and North Main Streets hold buildings from about 1768 to 1914, including the 1768 Simeon Wheelock House, a well-preserved central-chimney cottage. Two Federalist houses are linked to prominent local merchants and manufacturers. A split in the town's congregation in the early 1830s produced the Greek Revival First Evangelical Church and the Gothic Revival First Unitarian Church. Other landmarks include the 1819 Federalist academy and Masonic lodge building, the Gothic Revival Thayer Memorial Building of 1893-1894, and successive inns at Douglas and Main Streets. A Civil War statue and a World War I marble memorial stand on the Common. The district retains its design, setting and historical association, and it was listed for its history and its range of nineteenth-century architecture.","period_of_significance":"ca.1768-1914","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federalist, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Victorian Gothic, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.011286-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7932/63793223/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/84002920.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002920/686caee860-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002920/686caee860-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ksherin","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uxbridge_Academy_Building,_Uxbridge,_MA.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Ksherin</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uxbridge_Academy_Building,_Uxbridge,_MA.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793223","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uxbridge_Common_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7904012"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/worcester-county/uxbridge-common-district-84002920/"}