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FORM B - BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 AUG 2 1 1989 NATIONAL REGISTER 1534 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5", black and white) Indicate address of property on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing property's location in relation to nearest cross streets and/or geographical features. Indicate all buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection(s). Indicate north AREA FORM NO. 62 WALTHAM, MA MRA Town Waltham Address 380-410 River Street Historic Name Boston Manufacturing Company Housing Use: Present residential Original same DESCRIPTION Date c1881-1886 Source maps/atlases Style late Italianate vernacular Architect unknown Exterior Wall Fabric_permastone/viny1 Outbuildings none Major Alterations (with dates) artificial siding c1970s Condition good Moved -nO Date n/a 0.7A. Acreage 28,280 sq.ft.
60-32-7,8,9 Setting set amidst poorly preserved 19th century workers' housing on River - Street--faces Charles River to rear UTM REFERENCE 19/316240/4693470 USGS QUADRANGLE NEIVTON SCALE 1:25,000 Recorded by Ed Gordon Organization Waltham Historical Comm. Date June, 1986 revised by C. Jenkins 3/88 NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (if applicable) The rowhousing at 380-410 River Street possesses integrity of location, design, workmanship, feeling and associations. It is significant of workers' housing developed by the Boston Despite its artificial siding it reinforces de slopod by rethforteg aver Stree 19th cenetane as a clearly recognizable and uncommon form Manufacturing Company during the 19th century. River Street's 19th century character as the corridor between the main BMC mills and the bleachery that was lined with a variety of workers' housing.
It is an outstanding component of Waltham's remarkable collection of workers' housing which has been identified by MHC as one of the most comprehensive in the Boston area. It meets criteria A and C of the National Register of Historic Places. ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important architectural features and evaluate in terms of other buildings within the community. The rowhousing at 380-410 River Street is composed of two contiguous sections, distinguished by a slight change in roofline and different articial siding. The western end is clad with permastone and the eastern end is clad with vinyl clapboards. Otherwise, most details remain intact. The block rises two stories from a full basement to a gable roof. The block is divided into four bay segments with paired entries and paired stove chimneys.
At the western end the entries are surmounted by bracketed hoods, while the eastern end displays open porches with turned posts. Windows contain 2/2 wood sash. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCEExplain the role owners played in local or state history and how the building relates to the development of the community. The rowhousing at 380-410 River Street was erected by the Boston Manufacturing Company for workers during the expansion period of the 1880s. The BMC began developing workers' housing in the River Street area, which connected the main mills with the bleachery, in the 1820s. Much of this housing remains, but little in recognizable form. The uncommon rowhouse form of this block and its reasonably good state of preservation (except for artificial siding) make it particularly important.
It is a direct descendant of the Long Block which stood on the south side of the Waltham Common from 1816 until its demolition in the late 1880s. Another similiar block dating from 1889 stands at 2-24 Lawton Place (Area L). All of these blocks were of wood-frame construction; unlike Lowell, masonry BAC NoTker! BMC workers' housing was non-existant until the early 1870s (see form #55). Both of the surviving blocks are conservative in plan and detail, displaying Federal derived lunette windows in the gable ends, and bracketed Italianate entries. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Maps/Atlases- 1874, 1881, 1886, 1898, 1900 E.L. Sanderson. Waltham: 1634-1884. 1936. 8/85 NF'3 Form 10-000 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park 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 Cover Substantiva Date/Signature Keeper 15/ 2/2/57 {Keeper ( AhelvusBzan 2/28/04 1. American Waltham Watch Company Entered in tuo Historic District National degister Attest 2. American Watch Tool Company intered in the UKosper ulmusBgur 2/21/4 National Register Attest 3. Andrews, Joseph, House Entered in the National Register Keeper AelomBigua 9/8/69 Attest 4. Baker, Charles, House Entered in the National Begister Lkeeper AfelunBga 9/28/89 Attest 5. Baker, Charles, Property Entered 1n National tbe Bugister Reeper AelvessSgea 9/25/09 Attest 6. Banks, E. Sybbill, House Entered in the National Register Reeper 9/-564 Subatantive Review Sc1. Barnes, Thomas, House DOE/OMNER OBJECTION Attest Jsooper Cligiole BerfBSage 2/0/8 8.
Beard, Josiah, House intered in the National Register LKeeper ArlressByu 2/21/9 Attest SuR 9. Beth Eden Baptist Church Subatantive Revic jaKeeper -Bety Saze 1/28/89 10. Boston Manufacturing Company Housing (380--410 River St.) /Keeper ShlvuByu 9/28/89 Entered in the Mational Registex Attest UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY NAME: Boston Manufacturing Company Housing 380-410 RIVER ST.
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: 89001534 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED:N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT RETURN REJECT 9/25/24 _DATE Entered in the Hational Register ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR ./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 _sketch maps OTHER COMMENTS _USGS maps _photographs Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date presentation 59.- 88.
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345 COMMISSION 3 CHAALES B/VEF 1970 Atlas, City of Waltham Compiled by the Waltham Engineering Division Scale: 1 inch = 140 feet Waltham, Massachusetts MRA 380-410 River Street Boston Manufacturing Housing 13-L-7,8,9 MHC*62 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000301