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FORM F - STRUCTURE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 1515 WALTHAM, MA AREA MRA AUG 2 1 1989 901 AIUAL REGISTER Town Waltham Address Linden Street Name Linden Street Bridge Ownership: MBTA FORM NO. Public Private Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5" black and white) Indicate address on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing structure's location in relation to nearest cross streets, buildings and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north.
UTM REFERENCE 19/317/60 /4694150 USGS QUANDRANGLE LEXINGTOM SCALE 1:25,000 Type of Structure (check one): bridge X canal dam fort gate kiln lighthouse pound powder house street tower tunnel wall windmill other DESCRIPTION Date _ 1894 Source Peter Stott--MBTA survey Architect Engineer/Designer (if known) : Pennsylvania Steel Co. Construction material steel Alterations (with dates) none Condition good Moved Date n/a Acreage n/a-nomination confined to bridge and abutments Setting spans Linden Street at 63° skew Recorded by Peter Stott Organization _MBTA (Mass. Bay Transit Authoriti) Date 12/1/87 revised by C. Jenkins 3/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The Linden Street Bridge possesses integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and associations.
It is significant as one of only three remaining riveted lattice thru truss bridges, built on the model of the Central Mass. Railroad's landmark 9-span lattice truss bridge over the Connecticut River, remaining in the state. It also reflects the increase in traffic on this line that occured in 1887-1900 after its acquisition by the Boston & Maine Railroad. It was evaluated in the topcatagory by a recent MBTA bridge survey, and meets criteria A and C of the National kegister. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important design features and evaluate in terms of other structures within the community. The Linden Street Bridge measures 98'3" in length height of 21'11½". The riveted lattice truss design was an early favorite of the New York veted uattice f and 17' in width; it has an inside truss Central Railroad, but in Massachusetts it appears to have been used chiefly by the Central Mass.
Railroad. Several of this type were built, but only three remain extant. The fab- ricator of the bridge was the Pennsylvania Steel Company of Steelton, PA. The granite bridge abutments were constructed in 1881 for the first railroad bridge on the site, pro- bably a double-intersection Warren truss. The Linden Street bridge is particularly notable , for its 63° skew to accomodate the angle of the rail line over Linden Street. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explatn historical importance of structure and how the structure relates to the development of the community. Chartered in May 1869, the Massachusetts Central Railroad Company was the last:of the major east-west routes to extend across the state, competing for the traffic of both the Boston & Albany to the south and the Fitchburg to the north. Its road was opened from Cambridge to Hudson, 23.5 miles, on October 1, 1881.
The road declared bankruptcy in 1883, and the line did not reach its intended destination of Northampton until December of 1887. In the mean- time, the company had been reorganized as the Central Massachusetts Railroad in 1883, and leased to the Boston & Lowell Railroad three years later. In April 1887, the Boston & Lowell in turn was leased to the Boston & Maine Railroad. , After its acquisition by the B&M, the Central Mass. became the B&M's principal route to the west, seeing a great increase in traffic between 1887 and 1900, and under these cir- cumstances the line was upgraded, with new bridges constructed at Linden Street and over the Fitchburg tracks. Both followed the designs of the railroad's landmark 9-span lattice truss over the Connecticut River at Northampton (1887 and still extant).
When the B&M acquired the Fitchburg in 1900, the latter line took over most of the line's through traffic. Traffic slowly declined on the single-track route. Budd railcars were introduced for passenger service in the late 1950s. In 1965, passenger service on the Central Mass. was cut back from Hudson to South Sudbury, with service being subsidized by - the MBTA. All passenger service ceased on the line in 1975, and freight traffic followed not long after. EIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society. The Central Mass. 1975. Interstate Commerce Commission. Valuation Fieldnotes: 5 Account 6. Boston & Maine Historical Society Archives. University of Lowell. Stott, Peter. MBTA Historical Property Survey, Phase II. Linden Street Bridge. 1987.
8/85 NPS Form 10-000-e (8-86) United States Department of the Interior NationalPark Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number Page OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 AUG 2 | 1989 Multiple Resource Area Thematic Group Name State Waltham MRA Middlesex County, MASSACHUSETTS Nomination/Type of Review 51. Johnson, Newell D., House National Register Date/Signature freoper Ahenneßzun 9/28/4 Attest 52. Lawton Place Historic District Aeoper AulorByu 8/6/69 Entered in the National Rogister -: in Attest 53. Libby, Nelson F., House 1 35a% Ixcoper AulmeBgun 2/8/69 Attest :n2 54. Linden Street Bridge substantive Review suuotaatsro Rovior finxeeper. Bett Sauge 9/28/39 Attest 55. Lord's Castle mucrea in tne National Register Keeper_ AulreBgun 9/20/69 56. Lyman Street Historic District untered in the National Registar 57. Martin, Aaron, Houses srea!
Attest xeeper AeloerByun 9/25/89 Attest Lkeeper AelreByu 1/28/84 58. Martin, Aaron, House (786 Moody St.) antered in the National Begiater /Keeper_ AelrerBzu 9/5/61 Attest 59. Moody Street Fire StationEntered in the National Rogistar / Keeper_ AhlmeBgun 2/21/55 60. Moody Street Historic District entize Lovlew Attest fnkeeper_ Attest pitft Swge M9po NPS Form 10-900-a (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number - Page- OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 SUPPLEMENTARY RECORD NRIS Reference Number: 89001515 Date Listed: 09/28/89 Linden Street Bridge Property Name Middlesex County MA State Waltham MRA Multiple Name This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation o cà hn hh ta subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included in the nomination documentation. BithoSavs 9/28/89 Ju signatuke of the Keeper Date of Áction Amended Items in Nomination: Geographical Information: The acreage is This information was confirmed with Ann Tait, Acting National Register Director, MASHPO, by telephone.
DISTRIBUTION: National Register property file Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Linden Street Bridge MULTIPLE NAME: Waltham MRA STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: 8/21/89 9/21/89 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 9/05/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 10/05/89 REFERENCE NUMBER: 89001515 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: N N N COMMENT WAIVER: N VACCEPT RETURN REJECT 9/25/69 DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM.
/ CRITERTA Aceept AaC REVIEWERV DISCIPLINELUCUNEA DATE 9728/8 Histay DOCUMENTATION see attached comments see attached SLR Y/N CLASSIFICATION count resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification materials descriptive text SIGNIFICANCE Period Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance _justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketchmaps OTHER COMMENTS USGS maps photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date unde st.
Brdee MHC 901 Linden st - MASS CenttalR.R, Duda W'ostham, MA MRA Mass Central Rn Bridge #901 Linden st. Waltham MA, WALTHAM, MA, MRA Linden Street Railroad Bridge Linden Street 1" = 100' 1975; updated to 1987 Waltham Engineering Dept. #901 Map #53 101.30 102-188 104.65 155.07 72 38 51 47.66 30 68.11 610 40 108.03 -430 360 LINDEN 3 83 - 64 15005 206.
83-20 75006 210.71 13-20 10004 35 24118 /209.01 83-6 8961 40 230.15 5 86 go 44 203.2 2245 2 36 32 92.06 6452 32 8> 11277 41 42 80 43 2000 80 10 736 158.53 1478 BEAVER 34736 - 83- - 5631 805 TGOL 2363 41 21076 20722 ) 186.55 174.72 5 6 82.39 60 4 61.41 16.29 6487 Sá (PRIVATE) 51 48.53 78.94 6 2600 6639 96 38.79 144.21 119.86 MANOR RD 5 ipolve 43 4/ 73 92.53 55 PII 4 Enginecring Division scale: 1inch =140 Fect 1970 Atlas, City of WALTHAM Compiled by the waltham LINDEN FO39O LINDEN Building 872 6873 19 8343 6933 ST "SEWER" 182 192 47200 8 22 7800 10 20 70 -A-1 Linden st. R.R. brdge waltham, MA MRA 58 Chestnut st. -EÁSEMENT 15000 (CENTRAL N W Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000301 "McGinley Hart & Associates Architects & Pianners A.G.
Lichtenstein & Associates DMC Engineering Jane Carolan Historic Structure Inventory Form MBTA Historical Property Survey, Phase II MBTA Contract No. X2PS26 LOCATION Railroad route Central Mass Location Linden Street USGS quad LEXINGTON Milepost # 9.25 Town/City Waltham UTM Ref. 19.317160.4694150 Val plan # 5 PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Structure type lattice thru truss Overall length 98-3 Width 17-0 Tracks 1 Skew 63 Materials steel Spans 1 Bridge typology code Span lengths 98-2 Condition out of service 2 1 3 3 B.D./O.D. # Stories 4 65 HISTORICAL SUMMARY Date 1894 Date(s) rebuilt Builder Common Name (if any) Linden Street Bridge (Bridge 113) Designer Pennsylvania Steel Co. CULTURAL RESOURCE EVALUATIONS National Register status Local landmark designation HAER Doc.
# MA-46 Type and date of HAER documentation 2 photos (1982) MDPW # W-4-9 MHC finding Date of finding National Register recommendation Potentially eligible: category I. GRAPHICS U.S.G.S. MAP PHOTOGRAPH McGinley Hart & Associates Architects & Planners A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates DMC Engineering Jane Carolan Historic Structure Inventory Form MBTA Historical Property Survey, Phase II MBTA Contract No. X2PS26 Historic railroad name Massachusetts Central Railroad HISTORY & DESCRIPTION Chartered inMay 1869, the Massachusetts Central Railroad Company was the last of the major east -west routes to extend across the state, competing for the traffic of both the Boston & Albany to the south and the Fitchburg to the north. Its road was opened from Cambridge to Hudson, 23.5 miles, 10/1/1881.
The road declared bankruptcy in 1883, and the line did not reach its intended destination of Northampton until December of 1887. In the meantime, the company had been reorganized as the CentralMassachusetts Railroad in 1883, and leased to the Boston & Lowell Railroadthree yearslater. In April 1887, the Boston &Lowell in turn was leased to the Boston & Maine Railroad. After its acquisition by the B&M, the Central Mass. became the B&M's principal route to the west, seeing a great increase in traffic between 1887 and 1900., and under these conditions the line was upgraded, with new bridges constructed at Linden Street and over the Fitchburg tracks (see Central Mass 12.34). Both followed the designs of the railroad's landmark 9-span lattice truss over the Connecticut River at Northampton (il S 7 , ding).
When the B&M acquired the Fitchburg in 1900, the latter line took over most the line's through traffic. Traffic slowly declined on the single-track route. Budd railcars were introduced for passenger service in the late 1950s. In 1965, passenger service on the Central Mass. was cut back from Hudson to South Sudbury, with service being subsidized by the MBTA. All passenger service ceased on the line in 1975, and freight traffic followed not long after. The Linden Street and Fitchburg crossing bridges are nearly identical in length, the latter bridge being only 3 inches shorter than Linden Street's 98 feet 3 inches. Both are 17 feet in width and have an inside truss height of 21 feet 11-1/2 inches. Linden Street, however, is particularly notable for its 63-degree skew.
The riveted lattice truss design was an early favorite of the New York Central, but in Massachusetts it appears to have been used chiefly by the Central Mass, which in addition to the three mentioned, built several others which are no longer standing. The fabricator of the bridge was the Pennsylvania Steel Company, of Steelton, PA. The granite bridge abutments were constructed in 1881 for the first railroad bridge on the site, probably a double-intersection Warren truss, like the first bridge over the Fitchburg. Sources , date Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, The Central Mass. (1975) Interstate Commerce Commission. Valuation Fieldnotes: 5 Account 6.LBoston and Maine Railroad Historical Society Archives. University of Lowell. Aperture Cards. Surveyor P. H.
Stott Survey date 12/1/87 Reviewer Review date Survey photographs GLOSSARY Val Plan: USGS quad: UTM Ref.: Railroad property valuation plan. HAER: Historic American Engineering Record U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle map B.D./O.D.: Balasted deck/open deck USGS map grid reference in the Universal Transverse Mercator grid system. rev. 10/15/87