South Washington Street Historic District

South Washington Street Historic District is a densely settled suburban neighborhood at the southern end of North Attleborough village, laid out along an old route that became a colonial thoroughfare and later the Norfolk Bristol Turnpike. It includes 34 houses and 25 outbuildings on about 28.5 acres, with a further 6 houses and 12 outbuildings counted as noncontributing. Three eighteenth-century farmhouses, including the c. 1762 Edward Richards Homestead, recall the area when Richards and Draper family farms held most of the land. Small Greek Revival worker houses followed. The largest group dates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when jewelry manufacturing brought prosperity and company officers built Stick, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival and other style homes. The Hixon-Fisher House was remodeled in 1924 in a Tudor manner by Providence architect Albert Harkness. Most buildings are little altered and well maintained, and all remain in residential use.