North Easton Historic District

The North Easton Historic District is a historic district in Easton, Massachusetts encompassing a cohesive village area developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily through the activities of the locally important Ames family.

The largest features of this area are the estates of the Ames family and their former industrial sites, when they were leading manufacturers of shovels and other tools.

The district includes rows of worker housing built by the Ameses for their workers, and the former Ames Company factory, located near the railroad tracks that run north-south through the district just east of Main Street.

[2] The district's most sophisticated architectural elements are in its public buildings, and in the estates of the Ames family.

Early examples include the Gothic Revival architecture of Queset, possibly designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and built about 1854, and Langwater, a Second Empire house built in 1859.