Oakham Center Historic District - Oakham MA - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

The Oakham Center Historic District encompasses a portion of the historic town center of Oakham, Massachusetts. The area was formed as a civic center about 1770, with town incorporation following in 1775. It includes a well-preserved variety of early 19th-century residential architecture, as well as the town's Greek Revival Congregational church, and its 1908 library. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

The town of Oakham, located in western Worcester County, was first settled by colonists in the 1740s as a district of Rutland, and was incorporated in 1775. Early settlement was dispersed and agricultural, and the town center did not begin to take shape until 1770, when William Hunter gave the town land near a crossroads for a church, school, animal pound, and burying ground. This junction, now where Maple Street, Coldbrook Road, and Ware Corner Road meet, became the core of the town center. Residential growth in the village was most significant during the first half of the 19th century, extending mainly to the west along Maple Street, with many of the houses also including small industrial or commercial workshops. An inn stood facing the common until it burned in 1908.

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Street address: Roughly bounded by Coldbrook Rd., Maple St., Barre Rd., & Deacon Allen Dr., Oakham, MA County / Borough / Parish: Worcester Year listed: 2020 Historic (Areas of) Significance: POLITICS/GOVERNMENT, ARCHITECTURE Periods of significance: 1780–1969 Historic function: DOMESTIC, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, RELIGION, FUNERARY, LANDSCAPE Current function: DOMESTIC, GOVERNMENT, EDUCATION, RELIGION, FUNERARY, LANDSCAPE Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Secondary Website 2: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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