Item 199: Adin Ballou house

Printed in 1974 from glass plate 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 Item 188 for a view of the house taken from the opposite angle. The house was moved to Dutcher Street in 1900; see Box 12, Folder 1, Item 2266 for a view of the house in 1919. Original photograph by the Draper Company. 25 x 20.25 cm.