The Elisha Southwick House is an historic house located at 255 Chocolog Road, in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, United States. The house is named for Elisha Southwick, a tanner and shoe manufacturer. David L. Southwick, who owned the house in the later decades of the 19th century, was a blacksmith who lived in the house in the late 1800s and built Conestoga wagon wheels.
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| Location | Uxbridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°2′22″N 71°38′45″W / 42.03944°N 71.64583°W |
| Built | 1820 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| MPS | Uxbridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 83004132 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 7, 1983 |
The house is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame Cape style house, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. Its main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window. The windows in the side bays are butted against the cornice in the Federal style. Probably built in the 1820s, it is a well-preserved example of vernacular Federal period architecture.[2]
On October 7, 1983, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Elisha Southwick House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ^ "Walking tours - Uxbridge". Blackstone Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
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