Elisha Southwick House

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Elisha Southwick House
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Location Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°2′22″N71°38′45″W / 42.03944°N 71.64583°W / 42.03944; -71.64583
Built1820
Architectural styleFederal
MPS Uxbridge MRA
NRHP reference No. 83004132 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 7, 1983

The Elisha Southwick House is an historic house located at 255 Chocolog Road, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. The house is named for Elisha Southwick, a tanner and shoe manufacturer. David L. Southwick, who owned the house in the later decades of the 19th century, was a blacksmith who lived in the house in the late 1800s and built Conestoga wagon wheels.

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The house is a 1+12-story wood-frame Cape style house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window. The windows in the side bays are butted against the cornice in the Federal style. Probably built in the 1820s, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Federal period architecture. [2]

On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Elisha Southwick House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  3. "Walking tours - Uxbridge". Blackstone Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2007-09-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)