Colrain Center Historic District

Colrain Center Historic District
Brick Meeting House
Location Colrain, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°40′24″N 72°41′52″W / 42.67333°N 72.69778°WCoordinates: 42°40′24″N 72°41′52″W / 42.67333°N 72.69778°W
Architect McLean & Wright,; Drew, M.R., et al.
Architectural style Federal, Greek Revival
Governing body Local
NRHP Reference #

06001057

[1]
Added to NRHP November 15, 2006

The Colrain Center Historic District encompasses the historic center of Colrain, Massachusetts, a rural hill town in northwestern Franklin County. The 30-acre (12 ha) district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1] Colrain was incorporated in 1761, but did not experience significant growth until later in the 18th century. The center began as the location of a local farm, and a bridge probably located where only stone abutments now stand. The center of the district and the village is the town green, a triangular patch of land at the junction of Main Road, Greenville Road and Jacksonville Road, and it is naturally bounded by the terrain, a steeply sided valley along a branch of the North River. Most of the housing in the district dates from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century, as are its institutional buildings. The Town Hall is a former congregational church, built in the Greek Revival style in 1834. The other former church building is the Methodist Church, built a few years later, but with Gothic Revival features; it was vacant in 2006. The Griswold Public Library building (1908, Classical Revival) is the only institutional building still used for its original purpose; all the others have either been lost or adaptively reused.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Colrain Center Historic District". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-21.