Washington Street Historic District

Washington Street Historic District is a 12.83-acre residential neighborhood just southeast of Peabody Square in Peabody, Massachusetts. It includes Washington Street and parts of Main, Holton and Sewall Streets, and holds forty-eight properties, only two of them modern intrusions. Most are frame houses of two to three stories, built by local manufacturers and merchants during the nineteenth century. The oldest is the Joseph Osborn House, built about 1795 by a potter. Greek Revival is the most common style, alongside Federal, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival examples. The district also has two churches, the brick Wallis School of 1869 and an early carriage factory. Its development followed the 1750 Boston Road, and the Bell Tavern once stood at the corner of Main and Washington Streets. The area is significant for its links to the leather and carriage industries, its prominent residents, and its largely intact architecture and setting.