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NPS Form 10-900-i
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National Register of Historic Places
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Continuation sheet 21 . Item number 7
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the central figure is Time, heavily shrouded, carrying an hour
glass. She will cut the thread. -
Caroline Hazard, retired president of Wellesley College, was
an historian. Both personally and professionally she had a keen
interest in her family and its accomplishments. And although she
and other Hazards continued to have considerable influence on
life in Peace Dale for some two decades more,’ -1920 was a very apt
time to erect this memorial. It marked the end of an era: the
Hazard heirs sold the Peace Dale Mills in 1918. C
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604 Kingstown Road, corner Columbia Street, Peace Dale Office -
Building 1856/c. 1908:
This oblong, .3-story, granite-rubble building was one of
Rowland Hazard II’s first designs see #37E. Designed to
accommodate the company store, mill offices, the local library
association, and a meeting hall, the building originally had a
low gable roof with broad eaves. The original 1856 storefront
modified with plate-glass windows exists on the Columbia Street
- side of the building. The Post Of fice storefront on the east
-- elevation as well as the present hipped roof and ornamental
balcony on the south end are all early twentieth-century
alterations which transformed this ponderous early Victorian
- block into something a bit more refined and faintly Federal
- Revival. In addition to the Post Office, the building houses a
shop, offices, room used by the Neighborhood Guild #96 and the
Museum of Primitive Culture. The top-floor meeting hall was
eliminated after its function was taken over by Hazard Memorial
Hall #38. C - -
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Kingstown Road, Columbia Street and Spring Street, The Green
1907-08:
This 4-acre grassy park, traversed by Indian Run, has a row
of oak trees along Kingstown Road and willows bordering Columbia
Street. There are two tennis courts at the Spring Street end of
the property and a parking area between the Green and the
Neighborhood Guild. When members of the Hazard family erected
the Neighborhood Guild #94 in 1907-08, the family-owned and
operated Peace Dale Manufacturing created this small park. Both
the Green and the Guild were designed by R. C. Sturges, a Hazard
relation. The Green links the Guild to the Hazard Memorial #38
and creates a public "breathing space" and greensward in the
center of the village. C -