The Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead is a historic house at 118 Wilson Road in
Bedford, Massachusetts
Bedford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population of Bedford was 14,383 at the time of the 2020 United States Census.
History
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. Built about 1740, it is the town's only surviving example of a brick-end colonial-period house, with long association to a nearby gristmill. The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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on April 14, 1977,
and included in the
Wilson Mill-Old Burlington Road District on August 18, 2003.
Description and history
The Bacon-Gleason-Blodgett Homestead is located in eastern Bedford, near the town line with
Burlington
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. It is set at the southwest corner of Wilson Road and Old Burlington Road; the latter is an old alignment of the main east–west road, now
Massachusetts Route 62
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which runs a short way to the north. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its two side walls are brick, each with two interior chimneys. The main facade is three bays wide, with paired sash windows flanking the center entrance on the ground floor, and single sash windows on the second floor. The entry is sheltered by a gable-roofed vestibule. The house has retained significant internal woodwork from the 18th century.
The house was built c. 1740 by Nathaniel Bacon, and is a well-preserved transitional
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style house. Bacon, along with the later owners Gleason and Blodgett, farmed and operated the
John Wilson gristmill, which was established nearby about 1690. Another 19th-century owner was James Smith Monroe, who operated a paper mill near the Wilson mill site that was a forerunner of a larger operation he later founded in
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References
{{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Houses in Bedford, Massachusetts
Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts
Georgian architecture in Massachusetts
Federal architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1740