Phillipston Center Historic District

Phillipston Center is a village historic district of about 44 acres in the northern part of Worcester County, Massachusetts. It is arranged around a grassy common ringed by The Common Road, with Baldwinville, Templeton and Petersham roads leading outward. The district contains 31 contributing and 11 noncontributing resources, including wooden houses, civic buildings, a cemetery, a town pump and a granite town pound dating to 1806. Buildings are mostly Federal or Greek Revival in style. The Congregational Meeting House, built in 1786 and remodeled in 1837, was given a temple front and belfry and a vestry that doubled as a town meeting space. School House #1 and the 1891 Town Hall also show Greek Revival form. Granite walls, steps, posts and foundations, along with mature trees, add to the character of the setting. Little 20th-century construction has intruded, so the center still reads as a village from the town's period of growth and prosperity between the late 1700s and mid-1800s.