Travel Photo Essay of Wrentham, MA

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Travel Photo Essay: Wrentham, MA

Downtown Wrentham, MA photo
Downtown Wrentham, MA

Article and photos by Eric H.

In many regards, Wrentham, MA -- a southwest suburban Boston community -- seems like the quintessential New England small town. The downtown features all the earmarks of classic, traditional New England with a church with tall white steeple, public schools all situated together, a beautiful town common and a limited but appealing row of small, specialty shops (many with colorful flags and benches out front). Here is a place where you can catch the local conversations at the Looking Glass Cafe diner (36 South St.), taste homemade ice cream a few doors down at Tootsie's, enjoy a hearty breakfast, lunch or dinner at the cozy Terrace Cafe (36 South St.), buy paints and hardware, local-style, at the family-owned Cataldo's (84 South St.), or even stay overnight at the lovely 1861 Victorian Proctor Mansion Inn overlooking the town common. With beautiful Lake Pearl beach, the rural Wrentham neighborhood of Sheldonville, and the more modern Wrentham Village Premium Outlets (with more than 175 stores!) just a few minute's away, Wrentham feels, at times, less like a Boston suburb and more like a vacation getaway.

Wrentham Town Common photo, Wrentham, MA

Wrentham Town Common photo, Wrentham, MA

Wrentham Town Common

Wrentham, MA, photo

Another downtown Wrentham perspective

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