Uxbridge Common District

Uxbridge Common and the streets around it form an eight-acre district that has served as the town's civic and residential center since the first meetinghouse went up in 1729. Court, Douglas and North Main Streets hold buildings from about 1768 to 1914, including the 1768 Simeon Wheelock House, a well-preserved central-chimney cottage. Two Federalist houses are linked to prominent local merchants and manufacturers. A split in the town's congregation in the early 1830s produced the Greek Revival First Evangelical Church and the Gothic Revival First Unitarian Church. Other landmarks include the 1819 Federalist academy and Masonic lodge building, the Gothic Revival Thayer Memorial Building of 1893-1894, and successive inns at Douglas and Main Streets. A Civil War statue and a World War I marble memorial stand on the Common. The district retains its design, setting and historical association, and it was listed for its history and its range of nineteenth-century architecture.