Larrabee & Hingston Company, Lumber Storage Shed No. 1, 19 Howley Street, Peabody, Essex County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2C-, with 1 photograph and a 610-word written history.
“The Larrabee & Hingston Company Lumber Storage Shed #1 (ca.1920) is significant for its association with Peabody's most important historic industry, the tanning of animal hides.”
Written record, HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2C- survey. Machine-read text.
surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2C- · the record runs 610 words · one of 230 surveyed structures published for this county.
1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.
The headings the report itself prints. Each one jumps to where it begins.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2C-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
The Larrabee & Hingston Company Lumber Storage Shed #1 (ca.1920) is significant for its association with Peabody's most important historic industry, the tanning of animal hides. Lumber Drying Shed #1 was an important component of a support/service industry complex associated with the area tanning industry. Larrabee & Hingston, founded in was a custom builder of wooden tanning vessels and was the last such facility in the Northeast when it closed in Project Information Statement: Stop & Shop's project to construct a commercial building requires a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District (Corps).
After review of plans, the Corps and Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Office (MASHPO) determined that the proposed undertaking will have an adverse effect through demolition of a National Register-eligible historic property. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) entered into by Stop & Shop, the MASHPO, and the Corps includes recordation of the Larrabee & Hingston Company to Historic American Engineering Record standards prior to demolition. Virginia H. Adams, Senior Architectural Historian Matthew A. Kierstead, Industrial Historian Mary Kate Harrington, Architectural Historian The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. 210 Lonsdale Avenue Pawtucket, Rhode Island LARRABEE & HINGSTON COMPANY, LUMBER STORAGE SHED #1 HAERNO.MA-149-C (Page 2) PART
Descriptive Information
The Larrabee & Hingston Company Lumber Storage Shed #1 (ca. is located to the south of the Lumber Drying Shed (HAERNo. MA-149-B) in the Larrabee & Hingston Company complex. It is a one-story, three-bay, timber frame structure with an asphalt roll-covered shed roof, sided with vertical boards. The structure rests on a high poured concrete foundation. The west elevation includes three vertical board bay doors which slide horizontally on an overhead rail mounted underneath the roof overhang. The interior is open in plan. A two-seater privy is located in the northeast corner. PART II HISTORICAL INFORMATION Larrabee & Hingston Company Lumber Storage Shed #1 was constructed ca.3920, in the last years of ownership of the property by Aaron F. Clark's Lumber Yard.
The building was used for the storage of lumber used in the manufacture of Larrabee & Hingston's wooden tanning drums and tubs. PART HI SOURCES OF INFORMATION A. Engineering Drawings None located. B. Historic Views None located. C. Interviews Buckley, Steven, former Larrabee & Hingston employee and Hingston family member. Interview by Matthew Kierstead, 28 June Peabody. Tape recording on file at The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., Pawtucket, RI. Hingston, Steven, Shop Superintendent, Larrabee & Hingston Company. Conversations with Matthew Kierstead, 28 and 30 June Peabody, MA. Jeffers, John, Owner, Jeffers Lumber and Millwork. Conversation with Matthew Kierstead, 28 July Salem, MA. D.
Bibliography Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Company, New York Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for the Town/City of Peabody, LARRABEE & HINGSTON COMPANY, LUMBER STORAGE SHED #1 HAER NO. MA-149-C (Page 3)
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| Peabody, Massachusetts | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Essex County, Massachusetts | 300 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above. |
The federal surveyors worked through Peabody building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Larrabee & Hingston Company | HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2- | 2,450 words |
 | Larrabee & Hingston Company | HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2A- | 1,690 words |
 | Larrabee & Hingston Company | HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2B- | 877 words |
 | Larrabee & Hingston Company | HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2E- | 791 words |
 | Larrabee & Hingston Company | HAER MASS,5-PEAB,2D- | 628 words |
 | Derby Summer House | HABS MASS,5-DAV,11- | 391 words |
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