Cato Hill Historic District

Historic district in Rhode Island, United States

United States historic place


Cato Hill Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Clarkin Lane
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Location	Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Federal
MPS	Woonsocket MRA (AD)
NRHP reference No.	76002255 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 10, 1976

The Cato Hill Historic District is a residential historic district (United States) in central Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It consists of about 2-1/2 blocks of Church and Cato Streets, as well as the streets crossing them (Clarkin Lane and Boyden Street). The area, located on a hill just above Woonsocket's downtown area, is a densely populated area built primarily between 1838 and 1875, during Woonsocket's growth as a major textile processing center. Cato Hill is named for Cato Aldrich, an African American who purchased the land from the Arnolds who founded Woonsocket. The houses of the district exhibit vernacular forms of the architectural styles popular in the mid-19th century.^[2]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Cato Hill Historic District" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved August 5, 2014.