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Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton

Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton, Middlesex County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,9-NEWT,14-, with 1 photograph and a 195-word written history.

From the record

“One of the most architectually impressive factories in the immediate Boston area is the Victorian cordage factory built about for the Silver Lake Cordage Company.”

Written record, HAER MASS,9-NEWT,14- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,9-NEWT,14- · the record runs 195 words · one of 333 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Silver Lake Cordage Company, 308 Nevada Street, Newton, Middlesex County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

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

Significance

128 words

The headings the report itself prints. Each one jumps to where it begins.

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,9-NEWT,14-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

One of the most architectually impressive factories in the immediate Boston area is the Victorian cordage factory built about for the Silver Lake Cordage Company. The original four-story brick mill building still stands, now the mansard roofed center block of the complex which was expanded to the north about and to the south after After the company moved to Georgia in the plant was taken over by the National Packaging Machinery Company, a leading manufacturer of box and carton-forming machinery. Transmitted by: Dan Clement, Historical information written by Peter Stott. ADDENDUM TO HAER No. MA-33

Silver Lake Cordage Company

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In context

Newton, 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 Newton

15 records

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

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Boston & Albany Railroad Station, photograph filed with the federal surveyBoston & Albany Railroad StationHABS MASS,9-NEWT,13-740 words
Sudbury River Aqueduct, photograph filed with the federal surveySudbury River AqueductHAER MASS,9-NEWT,15-239 words
Wyman-Tower House, photograph filed with the federal surveyWyman-Tower HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,3-39 words
Crehore Paper Mill, photograph filed with the federal surveyCrehore Paper MillHABS MASS,9-NEWT,12-36 words
Timothy Jackson House, photograph filed with the federal surveyTimothy Jackson HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,1-35 words
Mill House No. 5, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 5HABS MASS,9-NEWT,9-35 words
Three Mill Houses, photograph filed with the federal surveyThree Mill HousesHABS MASS,9-NEWT,10-32 words
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, photograph filed with the federal surveySt. Mary's Episcopal ChurchHABS MASS,9-NEWT,11-32 words
Kenrick House, photograph filed with the federal surveyKenrick HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,4-30 words
Mill House No. 1, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 1HABS MASS,9-NEWT,5-30 words
Mill House No. 3, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 3HABS MASS,9-NEWT,7-30 words
Mill House No. 4, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 4HABS MASS,9-NEWT,8-25 words
John Woodward House, photograph filed with the federal surveyJohn Woodward HouseHABS MASS,9-NEWT,2-25 words
Mill House No. 2, photograph filed with the federal surveyMill House No. 2HABS MASS,9-NEWT,6-16 words
Newton Free Library, photograph filed with the federal surveyNewton Free LibraryHABS MASS,9-NEWCO,1-0 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,9-NEWT,14-. 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.