East Blackstone Village Historic District

East Blackstone Village is a small historic district in Blackstone, Massachusetts, strung along Elm Street and around its junction with Summer Street. It grew along the early road linking Providence and Worcester. The district covers about 33 acres and includes fourteen houses, two barns, a former store, a former schoolhouse, a stone arch bridge and several mill sites. The oldest building is the Seth Kelly Sr. House, built about 1760. Other landmarks include the three-story Stone Store of about 1800, the brick schoolhouse of about 1830 and a series of Greek Revival cottages, some built by the Ray brothers. Italianate and Queen Anne houses show later growth. Ruins of grist, saw and cotton mills, a forge site from 1716 and dams along the Mill River recall the industries that supported the village. The Kelly family shaped much of this development. Together, the buildings and landscape show how a nineteenth-century self-sufficient village was arranged and how it worked.