Elmshade, built in 1807 at 195 South Main Street, was built in the Georgian architecture style, and was a gift for Bezaleel Taft Jr from Bezaleel Taft Sr., on his graduation from Harvard Law School.

[3] A number of them had powerful political and legal careers, including George S. Taft, Bezaleel Jr's son.

[3] His influence probably led to the Lincoln Square, Worcester Court House being erected.,[3] The "Life of Alphonso Taft by Lewis Alexander Leonard", on Google Books, is a particularly rich source of the history of the Taft family in Massachusetts.

President William Howard Taft again visited this area, and this home, as a youth when he spent summers and even a term of school in Millbury.

[5] In the colonial period of America, the Georgian Architecture style was also built with wood and clapboard, though much of the construction was of brick.