{"id":6931,"date":"2014-12-17T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2014-12-17T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:17:01","slug":"samuel-l-hill-house-1845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=6931","title":{"rendered":"Samuel L. Hill House (1845)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/29-33-Maple-St.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel L. Hill House\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/29-33-Maple-St.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/29-33-Maple-St-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MEwWAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA205#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Samuel L. Hill<\/a> was one of the founders of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-northampton.org\/highlights\/educationindustry.html\">Northampton Association of Education and Industry<\/a> (NAEI), a nineteenth-century utopian community located in the village of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florence,_Massachusetts\">Florence<\/a> in Northampton. In the 1830s, S. L. Hill had worked as an overseer in a cotton factory in <a href=\"http:\/\/historicbuildingsct.com\/?page_id=2017\">Willimantic, Connecticut<\/a>. He came to Florence in 1841, where he became a leading citizen and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic-northampton.org\/virtual_tours\/Markers\/Markerpanels\/entrepreneurs.html\">established<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textilehistory.org\/NonotuckSilkCompany.html\">Nonotuck Silk Company<\/a>. An abolitionist, Hill actively <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MEwWAAAAYAAJ&#038;dq=Samuel%20L.%20Hill%20florence&#038;pg=PA166#v=onepage&#038;q=Samuel%20L.%20Hill&#038;f=false\">aided slaves on the Underground Railroad<\/a>. Among his other acts of philanthropy was the founding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=mVZYTgAC5aUC&#038;lpg=PA40&#038;dq=Samuel%20L.%20Hill%20florence&#038;pg=PA40#v=onepage&#038;q=Samuel%20L.%20Hill%20florence&#038;f=false\">Florence Kindergarten<\/a>, now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillinstitute.com\/\">Hill Institute<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/sojournertruthmemorial.org\/samuel-l-hill-15\/\">His house<\/a>, at 29-33 (or 31-35) Maple Street in Florence, was built around 1845. The south wing is the earliest section of the house, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/cgi-bin\/fg.cgi?page=gr&#038;GRid=39177454\">Arthur G. Hill<\/a>, his son, also became one of Florence\u2019s leading citizens and lived in <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=NTH.176\">the house<\/a> until the 1920\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel L. Hill was one of the founders of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry (NAEI), a nineteenth-century utopian community located in the village of Florence in Northampton. In the 1830s, S. L. Hill had worked as an overseer in a cotton factory in Willimantic, Connecticut. He came to Florence in 1841, where he became a leading citizen and established the Nonotuck Silk Company. An abolitionist, Hill actively aided slaves on the Underground Railroad. Among his other acts of philanthropy was the founding of the Florence Kindergarten, now the Hill Institute. His house, at 29-33 (or 31-35) Maple Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,8,171],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gothic","category-houses","category-northampton","tag-underground-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}