Hon. Bazaleel Taft House
The Hon. Bazaleel Taft House is a historic house at 240 South Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this now-large house was built c. 1780-90 by Bazaleel Taft, and is a fine regional example of late Georgian architecture. The house was adapted for use as a restaurant in the 1960s, which has since closed. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Description and history The Bazaleel Taft House is located south of Uxbridge center on Massachusetts Route 122 at the intersection with the northern terminus of Massachusetts Route 146A. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a two-level hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Attached to its east and north are a modern addition made as part of the building's restaurant conversion. The house as two primary facades, one facing west and the other south. Each is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a transom window, entablature, and gabled pediment. The lower level of the roof on the west side has three gabled dormers. The exact construction date of the house is not known. The property on which it stands had a long association with