Sudbury Center Historic District

Sudbury Center is a village district of 82 structures arranged around a triangular green and along four roads that radiate from it. Clapboard construction predominates. The green is bordered by the First Parish Church of 1797, the Town Hall of 1932 by Charles H. May, a replica of an 1846 building lost to fire, the Greek Revival Grange Hall, and the Presbyterian Church. Nearby farmhouses range from the 18th century to the 20th, in Federal, Greek Revival, Mansard, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district also contains the Ralph Adams Cram house and his Norman-style St. Elizabeth's Chapel, built in 1914 of fieldstone, plus several old cemeteries. It was listed because of its well-preserved houses and its role in local history: an early settlement of the late 1630s, the Haynes Garrison House site where settlers repelled attackers in 1676, and the green where minutemen gathered on April 19, 1775 before marching to Concord.