Hopedale Village Historic District

Hopedale Village Historic District covers the center of a suburban-industrial town in the Mill River Valley, about thirty-three miles southwest of Boston. The area grew from the Hopedale Community, a utopian settlement founded in 1841, and later developed under the Draper family as a model company town. At its center is the Draper Corporation plant beside Hopedale Pond. Around it are streets laid out in the 1840s, houses from Greek Revival cottages to Second Empire, Shingle and Colonial Revival homes, mill proprietors' estates on Adin Street, and institutional buildings. Company housing groups built around the turn of the twentieth century used street layouts by landscape architects Warren Manning and Arthur Shurtleff. Parks such as The Parklands, Town Park and Adin Ballou Memorial Park add designed landscapes. The district contains 646 contributing resources and is significant for its record of community planning, industry and architecture from 1841 to 1955.