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Original interior features include a bank vault in the bank offices on the ground floor. [2] The building was one of many Fitchburg commercial buildings designed by architect Henry M. Francis and was completed in 1895. It is the only one of three Francis-designed bank buildings to survive in the city. It underwent major remodelings in 1934 and ...
Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertown was one of the first Massachusetts Bay Colony settlements organized by Puritan settlers in 1630
The Fitchburg Public Library was established in 1859. [40] [41] In 1899, a child-specific library service began in one of the country's first children's rooms. [42] Fitchburg Public Library became the first regional library in the Massachusetts Regional Library System in 1962. [43] In 2008, the library had a budget of $1,111,412. [44]
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The Provident became a wholly owned subsidiary of Hartford National. However, The Provident, which is the fourth-largest savings bank in Massachusetts, will continue to operate under the name it has been using since 1816." [8] The bank kept its original name through 1992. In 1993, the Provident was merged into Shawmut Bank. [9] [10]
The Watertown Branch Railroad was incorporated 1847, first as an independent short line RR, but was quickly taken over by the Fitchburg. It ran from the main line in Cambridge through Watertown to Waltham. It opened in 1851 and was soon the main passenger line between Boston and Waltham and one of the few branch lines to be double tracked.
Fitchburg's Monument Park is located near the center of its downtown Main Street commercial area, flanked by Wallace Avenue (west), Elm Street (north), Hartwell Street (east), and Main Street (south). It is 2/3 acre in size, and is a basically flat and rectangular parcel, with grass and mature maple trees encircled by shrubs and a low iron fence.
The Watertown-Cambridge Greenway right-of-way cleared of overgrowth in August 2018. Mt. Auburn Street passes overhead. State and local [10] [11] collaboration has been ongoing for transformation of the rail corridor into a rail trail, [12] once known as the Charles River/Alewife Connector, [13] now called the Watertown-Cambridge Greenway.