Woodcock-Hatch-Maxcy House Historic District

Located at the junction of North Washington and East Washington Streets in North Attleborough, this 2.1-acre district centers on a two-and-a-half-story plank-framed house built about 1715-1720 by John Daggett. Known locally as the Woodcock Garrison House, it is probably not the original garrison, which stood about thirty feet away and was razed in 1806. The house is a rare Massachusetts example of a stone-ender, with a large masonry mass at one gable end, a two-room plan and a half cellar. The district also includes a burial ground across the street, with 112 stones from 1723 to 1825, and a relocated c. 1850 schoolhouse. The site began with John Woodcock's 1670 ordinary on the main route between Boston and Rhode Island. Later the Maxcy and Hatch families ran a tavern and inn here. Jonathan Maxcy, second president of Brown University, was born in the house in 1768. The Historical Society now operates it as a museum.