Ludlow Village Historic District

Ludlow Village is a former company town on the Chicopee River in Ludlow, Massachusetts, built around the Ludlow Manufacturing Company's mills, which drew on the river's waterpower. The district covers about 190 acres. It holds nine major early 20th-century mill structures, dozens of brick storehouses, a library, a hospital, schools, a church, a bank, commercial blocks, twenty management-level houses and two memorial parks. Most buildings went up between 1901 and 1911 in red brick with Romanesque and Renaissance Revival detailing, giving the village an unusually uniform appearance. The Union Church of 1845 is the oldest building, and the Hubbard Memorial Library of 1888 was designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson. Company engineers designed many of the other buildings. The residential and institutional areas remain in use and little changed, with few intrusions. The Red Bridge hydroelectric station, four miles upriver, is included because of its link to the company.