Goodwill Shoe Company Factory, 26-28 Water Street, Holliston

Goodwill Shoe Company Factory, 26-28 Water Street, Holliston, Middlesex County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,9-HOLST,2-, with 1 photograph and a 191-word written history.

From the record

“This is a landmark example of a large shoe factory built at the peak of shoe industry production, for the manufacture of heavy footwear for farmers and sportsmen.”
Written record, HAER MASS,9-HOLST,2- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,9-HOLST,2- · the record runs 191 words · one of 333 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Goodwill Shoe Company Factory, 26-28 Water Street, Holliston, Middlesex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

123 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,9-HOLST,2-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

This is a landmark example of a large shoe factory built at the peak of shoe industry production, for the manufacture of heavy footwear for farmers and sportsmen. The two wood-frame buildings are located on either side of Water Street, and were originally connected by a second-story bridge above the street. The building on the east side of the street is 4 stories high with a slate-roofed tower and is approximately 190 feet long; the building to the west is three stories in height and approximately 100 feet in length. Both still show their original clapboards and 6/6 sashes. Fenestration is characterized by bands of closely spaced, double hung, sash windows reaching the length of the facades. Transmitted by: Monica E. Hawley, Historian,

In context

Holliston, Massachusetts	The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts	449 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record	The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Holliston

1 record

The federal surveyors worked through Holliston building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

Sheet	Structure	Survey	Report
	Boston & Worcester Railroad	HAER MASS,9-HOLST,1-	154 words

Provenance

Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,9-HOLST,2-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.