The house at the corner of Dutcher and Hope streets was razed in the early 2000s. Since the duplex, shown below, that replaced it faces Hope Street, it has the address 50-52 Hope Street.
The building at 33 Hopedale Street was long known as the Water Cure House. For a short period of time during the Hopedale Community days, Dr. Butler Wilmarth and his wife Phyla operated it as a water cure hospital. Click here to read about them. After the Wilmarths use of it ended, it was divided into several apartments. It was demolished in 1968 and replaced with the duplex shown below.
This duplex, next to the southern end of the Hopedale Street side of the Draper shop, was razed long ago. The lot was left vacant.
James Northrop, principal inventor of Draper’s Northrop loom, resided for a time at 90 Hopedale Street, before moving to California. The picture on the left below shows the house in December 2007. On December 27 of that year, it was destroyed by fire. The picture on the right shows the house that was built to replace it. Click here to see pictures of the house after the fire.
The house shown above, and six others in the Mendon Street neighborhood once known as Patrick’s Corner, were razed in 2017. The picture below shows it shortly before that time. As I write this in 2025, the lot remains empty.
Evidently this Union Street house has been converted from a duplex to a single-family home.
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Thank you very much to Vascen Bogigian for the drawings on this page. Along with the pictures, he also gave me prints of the houses. They were all Draper Corporation houses, and the pictures and blueprints were done in 1946. The prints had drawings showing how the houses looked at the time, with the proposed changes shown in the prints Some of the changes were for the interiors, but many also had some very noticeable exterior changes. All of the houses were fairly close to the center of town, suggesting that Draper was trying to “spruce up” the look of the vicinity.