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Pages in category "Houses in Southbridge, Massachusetts" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... William Hodgson Two-Family House
William Hodgson Two-Family House: June 22, 1989 : 103–105 Sayles St. Probably demolished. 45: House at 3 Dean Street ... Southbridge Town Hall: November 20, 1987
The Maple Street Historic District consists of a cluster of ten similar worker cottages on Maple Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. They were built as part of an effort by the locally important American Optical Company to improve the quality of its worker housing in the 1910s. [ 2 ]
George Wells was a scion of the Wells family, which owned the locally prominent American Optical Company, and the grandson of architect Daniel Burnham. Wells and his wife Ruth, having seen International Style houses on travels to Europe, decided to build a house in that style, but had difficulty finding an architect in Boston or New York City ...
The Wells family were the founders of the American Optical Company, a leading business in Southbridge. The house John M. Wells had built in 1927 was reminiscent of a French chateau, and was the first to be built in the Cohasse Farms section of Southbridge.
52 Main Street is located east of downtown Southbridge, on the north side of Main Street between Maple and Crystal Streets. It was built during a housing boom brought about by the success of the nearby American Optical Company, during which larger house lots on Main Street were subdivided and built on with this type of worker housing.
The Napoleon LaRochelle Two-Family House is a historic house at 30 Pine Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. An excellent example of a vernacular Victorian duplex, it was probably built around 1890 for Napoleon LaRochelle, a polisher for the American Optical Company. He owned this and another house next door which was built in the same style.
The Southbridge Public Library was founded in 1870. [21] [22] In fiscal year 2008, the town of Southbridge spent 1.03% ($426,025) of its budget on its public library—approximately $25 per person, per year ($32.94 adjusted for inflation to 2022). [23] The Jacob Edwards Library [24] is the public library