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Historic district in Massachusetts, United States

Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District

The Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District encompasses the "New City" or "High Rocks" area of Blackstone, Massachusetts, an industrial village associated with the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, which began operations in 1809.

Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District
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The place

The Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District encompasses the "New City" or "High Rocks" area of Blackstone, Massachusetts, an industrial village associated with the Blackstone Manufacturing Company, which began operations in 1809. It includes an area roughly surrounding Butler, Canal, Church, County, Ives, Main, Mendon, Old Mendon, and School Streets. The district includes a wide variety of worker housing, as well as a granite storehouse, the only surviving company structure. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    St. Ann's Church Complex

    St. Ann's Church Complex is now a historic cultural center in Woonsocket, Rhode Island on Cumberland Street.

    3.6 km · church building in Woonsocket, United States of America · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stadium Theatre

    The Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre & Conservatory is a historic movie theater and concert venue and commercial building at 28 Monument Square in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The complex consists of two connected sections, one housing the theater, the other offices, both with retail spaces on the ground floor.

    2.9 km · movie theater and music venue in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pothier House

    The Pothier House is a historic house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This modest L-shaped 1+1⁄2-story cottage is notable as the longtime home of Woonsocket Mayor Aram J. Pothier.

    2.9 km · historic house in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Woonsocket

    St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish is a Roman Catholic parish located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

    2.2 km · church in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Woonsocket City Hall

    The Woonsocket City Hall, is located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Edward Harris, a leading Woonsocket industrialist, constructed the earliest part of the building in 1856, and it was known as the Harris Block, with stores on the first floor, and an auditorium hall seating 1,100 on the third floor.

    2.9 km · city hall in Rhode Island, United States of America · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Woonsocket Civil War Monument

    The Woonsocket Civil War Monument is a historic site at Monument Square in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was built to memorialize thirty-nine fallen soldiers from Woonsocket who took part in the Civil War.

    2.9 km · sculpture in Rhode Island, United States of America · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Woonsocket District Courthouse

    The former Woonsocket District Courthouse is a historic court building on 24 Front Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

    3.2 km · building in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    L'Eglise du Precieux Sang

    L'Église du Précieux Sang is a historic Roman Catholic church complex at 94 Carrington Avenue and 61 Park Avenue in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, within the Diocese of Providence.

    3.3 km · historic church in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    John Arnold House

    The John Arnold House is an historic house on 99 Providence Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The main block of this two-story wood-frame house is conventionally believed to have been built in 1712, but there is architectural evidence parts of it may be even older.

    3 km · historic house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Charles Borromeo Church Complex

    The St. Charles Borromeo Church is a former Roman Catholic parish church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, located on North Main Street.

    2.7 km · historic Roman Catholic church in Woonsocket, Rhode Island · Wikipedia

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Getting to Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District

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Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 34 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 59 km · Bradley (BDL), 95 km
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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Next door to Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District

Blackstone Manufacturing Company Historic District is 54 km from South Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.