Adin Ballou house

Negative no.A199. ca. 1900. Image depicts a view of the Adin Ballou house in Hopedale, Massachusetts, a two-story wooden clapboard building with a brick chimney and shutters on some of the windows. The house sits on a corner of Peace and Hopedale streets, with a tree right on the corner. Another house can be seen to the right behind it. Ballou (1803-1890) was a prominent proponent of pacifism, socialism and abolitionism, and the founder (in 1842) of the Hopedale Community, a utopian community blending a factory town with a religious-based commune. See Negative 188, in this box, for a view of the house taken from the opposite angle. The house was moved to Dutcher Street in 1900; see Box 125, Negative 2266 for a view of the house in 1919. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 5 x 7 in. See Collection 6612 P, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 199 for print of this negative.