Jump to content

Hope Village Historic District

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by JPRiley (talk | contribs) at 01:53, 4 May 2016 (architect links). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Hope Village Historic District
Hope Mill
Hope Village Historic District is located in Rhode Island
Hope Village Historic District
LocationRoughly bounded by the Pawtuxet R., Hope Furnace Rd., Hope Mill Pond, North Rd., White Ln., Harrington and Potter Sts., Hope, Rhode Island
Area114 acres (46 ha)
Built1765
ArchitectStone & Carpenter; Monahan & Meikle; Oliver W. Fontaine
Architectural styleLate Victorian, Mid 19th Century Revival
NRHP reference No.95000918 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 08, 1995

The Hope Village Historic District encompasses a historic mill village located in Scituate, Rhode Island. Located on a bend in the Pawtuxet River in southeastern Scituate, the area has seen industrial activity since the 18th century, and has surviving industrial and residential buildings from the early 19th century. The village is centered on the junction of Main Street (Rhode Island Route 115) and North Road (Rhode Island Route 116), and radiates out from there, with numerous properties on smaller side streets. The present main mill building was built in 1844 by Brown & Ives, operators of numerous Rhode Island textile mills. Approximately 1/4 of the village's housing stock originated as mill worker housing built by the company.[2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 1995.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Hope Village Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-11-12.
  • Wolf, Raymond A.The Lost Villages of Scituate.SC: Arcadia Publishing,September 14, 2009