Old Town Historic District

Old Town is a crossroads settlement in the southwest corner of North Attleborough, Massachusetts, covering about one hundred acres along Old Post Road and Mount Hope Street. Once rural and now largely suburban, it holds twenty-three houses, a church, a former schoolhouse, a brick powderhouse, a mill dam, stone slab bridges and several archaeological sites. The 1828 First Congregational Church, built by local carpenter Ezra Walker, is the chief landmark, facing the ca. 1680 and ca. 1731 Captain John Stearns House across the intersection. The 1768 town powderhouse and a Greek Revival district schoolhouse add to the civic core. Farmhouses to the north show Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival styles, while streetcar-era houses and an ice company's villas reflect later growth. The district was listed for its role as the earliest town center of old Attleborough, which existed from 1694 to 1887, and for its architecture and well-preserved landscape of fields, stone walls and roadside lawns.