The Wheelockville District is an

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located at Mendon and Henry streets in the village of

Wheelockville Wheelockville is a village in the town (township) of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the village centering on Mendon and Henry streets is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheelockville Historic District. ...

in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It encompasses a collection of modest Federal and Greek Revival period worker housing, built primarily to house families of workers at the nearby Waucantuck Mill Complex. The oldest houses in the area were built c. 1825–35, and include cottages built by the mill owners. A second phase of growth between about 1860 and 1885 resulted in the construction of a number of buildings with vernacular Victorian elements, as well as the somewhat more ornate Italianate Wheelock House at 173 Mendon Street, which was built for a manager at another Uxbridge mill. The district runs roughly along Mendon Street (

Massachusetts Route 16 Route 16 is a east–west state highway in Massachusetts. It begins in the west at an intersection with Route 12 and Route 193 in Webster, just north of the Connecticut state border. It runs in a generally southwest-northeast routing through ...

) from Hecla Street to the junction of Mendon and Henry Streets, and then along those two streets for about six houses. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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Buildings and structures in Uxbridge, Massachusetts Historic districts in Worcester County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Uxbridge, Massachusetts Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts {{WorcesterCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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