The Asa Waters Mansion is an historic mansion at 123 Elm Street in

Millbury, Massachusetts Millbury, officially the Town of Millbury, is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Located within Blackstone Valley, the population in Millbury was 13,831 at the 2020 United States Census. History Millbury was first settled by Europea ...

. Designed by architect

Asher Benjamin Asher Benjamin (June 15, 1773July 26, 1845) was an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal architecture and the later Greek Revival architecture. His seven handbooks on design deeply influenced the look of cities an ...

for Asa Waters and Susan Holman Waters, the mansion was built between 1826 and 1832, It is a three-story wood-frame house, with a hip roof ringed by a low balustrade. Its front facade is distinguished by colonnade of fluted two-story pillars with composite capitals, with pilasters at the building corners. The Millbury Historical Society is headquartered there, and the Mansion is used as an event space for public and private organizations and individuals. The building was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1978. File:Asa Waters House, Millbury, MA.jpg, ''Elevation of East Front'', Asa Waters House, 1824, by

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* Houses completed in 1832 Asher Benjamin buildings Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts Houses in Worcester County, Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Millbury, Massachusetts {{WorcesterCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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