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Indian Hill-North Village

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of which only two examples exist on Watt Road at Westinghouse Parkway, are type 1 cottages with a single-story ell projecting from the rear. The district also includes four ahistorical ranch houses on Heroult Road dating to the 1960s. There are two originally non-residential buildings in the district: the former community hall at 24-26 Watt Road, and the community store at 8-10 Watt Road.
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The company-designed houses in this area fall into two broad categories. The first type, which are the most common, are 1-1/2 story wood frame structures, with steeply pitched slate-covered gable roofs, a three-bay facade with center entrance, and a porch sheltering the entrance. The second type,
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and south of Ararat Street. It includes houses located on a roughly rectangular grid of streets bounded by Ararat Street, Delaval Road, Heroult Street, and Marconi Road. Roughly bisecting the area are Watt Road and Westinghouse Parkway; the latter is a divided road with a tree-lined median.
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properties along Ararat St., Delaval, Heroult, Marconi, Watt Rds., and Westinghouse Pkwy.,
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National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
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The North Village of Indian Hill is located in northern Worcester, just west of
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Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns
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encompassing the largest planned worker housing community in
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Indian Hill-North Village is located in Massachusetts
Indian Hill-North Village is located in the United States
Worcester, Massachusetts
42°18′47″N 71°48′45″W / 42.31306°N 71.81250°W / 42.31306; -71.81250
MPS
80000510
historic district
Worcester, Massachusetts
Norton Company
National Register of Historic Places
Interstate 190
company town
Norton Grinding Company
Grosvenor Atterbury
World War I
National Register of Historic Places listings in northwestern Worcester, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"NRHP nomination for Indian Hill-North Village"
Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns

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