Richard Sayles House

Richard Sayles House
Location Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°4′43″N 71°37′27″W / 42.07861°N 71.62417°W / 42.07861; -71.62417Coordinates: 42°4′43″N 71°37′27″W / 42.07861°N 71.62417°W / 42.07861; -71.62417
Built c. 1820
Architectural style Federal
MPS Uxbridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

83004131

[1]
Added to NRHP October 7, 1983

The Richard Sayles House is an historic house at 80 Mendon Street, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Built about 1820, it is a distinctive local example of Federal period architecture executed in granite. It is further notable has the home from about 1859 onward of Richard Sayles, a local mill worker, executive, and later owner. On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

Description and history

The Sayles House is located on the north side of Mendon Street (Massachusetts Route 16), just east of the St. Mary Parish church complex. The house is a two story stone structure, five bays wide, built out of ashlar granite and topped by a hip roof. Its front (north-facing) facade is symmetrical, with the entrance set at the center in a keystoned round-arch opening with a semicircular transom. The windows in the other bays have projecting sills and lintels, but are otherwise unadorned.[2]

The house was built about 1820, and its first owner is presently unknown. It was purchased about 1859 by Richard Sayles, a leading figure in the textile mills of Uxbridge. Sayles, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was educated at Uxbridge Academy, and worked in the local mills 1841-47. By 1852 he had risen to supervise construction of the Central Woolen Mill, which he and Israel Southwick leased 1859-61. In 1864 he purchased the Rivulet Mill, which he owned, generally in partnership with others, until his death in 1887.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Richard Sayles House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
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