Raynham, MA
Veterans Memorial Town Hall (Raynham Town Hall)
Completed in 1885, this brick-and-granite civic hub anchors Raynham Center with a dignified cupola and war-memorial plaques that still host open-town-meeting government today.
Phone: 508-824-2700
Official site
Wat Nawamintararachutis (Buddhist Meditation Center)
Opened in 2014, the five-story marble temple—largest Thai Buddhist complex outside Thailand—blends contemporary engineering with traditional Lanna wood carving and a soaring 185-ft chedi.
Phone: 508-823-1800
Official site
King Philip’s Cave
This glacial granite overhang is said to have sheltered Wampanoag sachem Metacom (“King Philip”) during the 1675–76 war, making it a rare surviving piece of Indigenous and Colonial conflict history.
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Atlas Obscura entry
Two Mile River Iron Works Site
Founded in 1652 by the Leonard brothers, this riverside forge produced the first commercial iron in New England; interpretive markers recount early smelting archaeology and water-power engineering.
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Town history
Hannant House – Raynham Historical Society
The 1870 Victorian farmhouse, bequeathed to the Historical Society in 1996, now safeguards archives and showcases period carpentry, slate roofing, and hand-turned balusters.
Phone: 508-823-6860
Historical Society
Raynham Public Library
Built in 1949 of local fieldstone, the library remains a New England model of post-war Colonial Revival design, offering climate-controlled local-history stacks and public makerspace labs.
Phone: 508-823-1344
Library site
Hewitt’s Pond Reserve
Town-owned since 1978, this 20-acre preserve protects a colonial mill pond, granite dam remnants, and cedar-lined walking loops ideal for wetland restoration studies.
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Conservation info
Rev. James Keith Parsonage (1662)
Believed to be the oldest standing parsonage in the U.S., this timber-frame saltbox sheltered Bridgewater’s first minister and doubled as a garrison during King Philip’s War.
Phone: 508-559-1510
Old Bridgewater Historical Society
Oliver Mill Park (Ruins of 1776 Sawmill)
Granite raceways, an 18th-century arch bridge, and interpretive panels illustrate early industrial stone-masonry in this riverside archaeological park.
Phone: 508-946-2400
Town page
Bridgewater Academy Building (1843 Town Hall)
The Greek-Revival Academy, restored in 2016, now houses town offices while preserving Ionic pilasters, a clock-tower cupola, and original sash windows that overlook Central Square.
Phone: 508-697-0919
Town of Bridgewater
Dighton Rock State Park & Museum
An 11-foot, 40-ton boulder covered with mysterious petroglyphs has drawn scholars since 1680; today it sits in a riverside museum interpreting Indigenous, Norse, and Colonial theories.
Phone: 508-822-7537
MassDCR page
Old Colony History Museum
Housed in an 1852 Greek-Revival courthouse, the museum preserves Bristol County silver, Civil-War regimental flags, and a vast masonry-tool archive for preservationists.
Phone: 508-822-1622
Official site
Taunton Green Historic District
Laid out in 1743, the common is ringed by Victorian city hall, Gothic churches, and ornate commercial blocks—an intact streetscape ideal for façade-restoration benchmarking.
Phone: 508-821-1418
Historic Commission
Bristol County Superior Courthouse (1894)
Architect Frank Irving Cooper’s Richardsonian-Romanesque landmark boasts a 170-ft copper-domed clock tower and Guastavino-tile vaults—recent masonry restorations highlight granite cleaning techniques.
Phone: 508-823-6588
Court site
First Parish Church in Taunton (1830)
The Unitarian granite meeting-house combines Greek-Revival columns with a Federal-style steeple and remains a case study in brownstone lintel conservation.
Phone: 508-822-2107
Church site
Boyden Hall (1926), Bridgewater State University
Georgian-Revival Boyden Hall—with limestone quoins, copper cupola, and Horace Mann Auditorium—serves as a benchmark for collegiate masonry envelope upgrades.
Phone: 508-531-1201
University page
Ames Free Library & Queset House (1883)
Designed by H. H. Richardson and landscaped by Olmsted, this pink-granite Romanesque library and adjacent Italianate Queset House exemplify 19th-c civic philanthropy and stone-carving artistry.
Phone: 508-238-2000
Library site
Ames Mansion (1910) – Borderland State Park
The 20-room stone mansion of suffragist Blanche Ames features steel-reinforced concrete floors, original Tiffany glass, and self-supporting granite facades—now open for adaptive-reuse tours.
Phone: 508-238-6566
MassDCR – Borderland
Taunton City Hall (1848 Municipal Building)
Rebuilt after a 2010 fire, the granite-and-brownstone hall retains its ornate clock tower and Second-Empire rooflines, serving as a showcase for modern HVAC integration into historic shells.
Phone: 508-821-1000
City website
North Raynham Trolley Trestle (1900)
The surviving timber-and-steel trestle of the Taunton-Brockton electric line illustrates early 20th-century commuter rail construction and offers case-study opportunities for timber-pile preservation.
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Digital archive
