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NPS Form 10300-a Exp. 0-31-84
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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic’ Places
Inventory-Nomination Form
Continuation sheet 3 Item number 7
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housing--that on Amos Stteet multi-unit, that on Brown Street
single-family. Kimball Street is a short, dead-end right-of-way
off Brown Street on which stand three good early twentiethcentury
bungalows. Turn-of-the-century Branch Street, connecting
Church Street and School Street, is characterized by a variety of
modest late nineteenth-and twentieth-century dwellings. By
contrast, Indian Run Road just to the east, bordered by a small
brookside park between it and Kingstown Road, has a row of
closely related company-built Colonial Revival dwellings
possessing considerable architectural interest. School Street, a
late nineteenth-century roadway at the south end of the National
Register historic district, has wakefield-oriented commercial and
residential properties on its south side. The north side, within
the district boundary, includes properties facing Indian Run Road
and Branch Street, as well as the former High School now the
School Street Apartments, #157 and Hazard School #115.
The above account should not mislead the reader into
thinking that Peace Dale lacks coherence. On the contrary, and
issues of boundary definition notwithstanding, Peace Dale
possesses remarkable unity, which can be defined in terms of
purpose, focus, ownership, period, design, authorship, and
ambience. Peace Dale is a mill village. Nearly all the
buildings in the village were built for operations of the Peace
Dale Manufacturing Company, to house its owners and workers, or
to serve these same people when not at work. Peace Dale in every
sense focuses on the mills, and on the adjacent facilities for
commerce, recreation, education, relaxation, and worship provided
by mills’ owners, the Hazard family. There are some 180
properties in the Peace Dale historic district inventory;
discounting roughly 20 non-historic buildings, there remain 160
historically significant properties. Of these, about 110 are
directly associated with the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company and
the Hazard family. Moreover, every noteworthy building erected
in every period up to the Second World war is associated with the
Hazards--from "The Cottage" #17, of c.1790, the oldest building
in Peace’ Dale, purchased by Rowland Hazard I in 1804 and used and
reworked by generations of family into the 1960s; to the first
stone mill of 1847 #37B; the second stone mill and office
building of 1856 #37E and 40; the Congregational Church and
railroad station of the ‘70s #106 and 82; The Acorns’ 1882,
#71; the Hazard Memorial of 1891-92 #38; the turn-of-the
century Colonial Revival dwelling built by the Company #149,
#151, #154, and 164-167; the Neighborhood Guild of 1907-08
#94; Hazard School 1911, #115; Stepping Stone Kindergarten
1916-17, #124; and the Peace Dale School of 1923 #1.