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Waltham, 1793 Map of Waltham, 1877. The name of the city is pronounced with the primary stress on the first syllable and a full vowel in the second syllable, / ˈ w ɔː l θ æ m / WAWL-tham, though the name of the Waltham watch was pronounced with a reduced schwa in the second syllable: / ˈ w ɔː l θ əm /. [48]
American Waltham Watch Company Historic District: American Waltham Watch Company Historic District: September 28, 1989 : 185–241 Crescent St. 2: American Watch Tool Company: American Watch Tool Company
The Charles Baker House is located one block east of the former Waltham Watch Company factory, at the northwest corner of Adams and Cherry Streets. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure with a cross-gable roof and clapboarded exterior. A gable end faces Adams Street, two bays wide, with a projecting single-story bay window in the left ...
The Watch Company purchased the farm in 1854, and retained ownership of this lot until the early 1880s. In 1886, the property was owned by Charles Baker, who also owned the house at 107 Adams Street and was a Watch Company employee. The house is a well-preserved example of a typical factory worker duplex of the period.
The Moody Street Historic District is a historic commercial district at Moody and Crescent Streets in Waltham, Massachusetts.It consists of eight commercial properties facing Moody Street as it runs south from the Charles River toward Newton.
Central Square is adjacent to the Waltham commuter rail station and is served by six MBTA bus lines: 70 Cedarwood, Market Place Drive, or Central Square, Waltham - University Park; 70A North Waltham - University Park via Watertown Square and Central Square, Cambridge; 505 Central Square, Waltham - Downtown express via Massachusetts Turnpike
The United States Watch Company is a historic factory complex at 260 Charles Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1886 and enlarged in 1901, it represents one of the most successful spinoffs of the American Waltham Watch Company , Waltham's dominant watchmaker of the late 19th century.
Windows on their main facades are treated with pediments incised with floral decoration, and their porches have turned posts. They were built by Aaron Martin, a real estate speculator and Waltham Watch Company employee who lived in a more elaborate house on Moody Street. [2] The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...