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The United States Post Office—Beverly Main is a historic post office in Beverly, Massachusetts. Built in 1910, it is a prominent local example of Colonial and Classical Revival architecture, and a significant work late in the career of architect James Knox Taylor .
A central theme of the district relates to Beverly's transportation history with several railroad-related buildings, a carriage manufactory and early automobile factory. The district, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, include two buildings previously listed: the Beverly Depot , built 1896, and the main post office ...
Putnam Street is located just south of the village of West Newton, across the Massachusetts Turnpike and the main east-west railroad tracks between Boston and Worcester. It extends southward from the rotary that carries Massachusetts Route 16 across the highway, and runs for two blocks to Temple Street, another residential street.
The 1855-built depot around 1890 The station building around 1972. The Eastern Railroad was extended from Salem to Ipswich via Beverly on December 18, 1839. [2] One of the difficulties in constructing the extension was blasting a 700-foot (210 m)-long cut through a ridge near School Street in Beverly. [3]
Beverly is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, and a suburb of Boston.The population was 42,670 at the time of the 2020 United States Census. [3] A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, Beverly includes Ryal Side, North Beverly, Centerville, Cove, Montserrat, Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing.
Edward Carelton Swift, [4] at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, "Swiftmoor" [5] on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora "Eleo" Sears , a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player, owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
The District of Salem and Beverly was established in the fifth statute passed by the First Congress in 1789 (ch.5, 1 Stat. 30). This act provided for the collection of the duties that had been laid down in the Hamilton Tariff earlier that year. The towns of Salem and Beverly were designated as one port of entry for customs purposes
West Beach is a 1.13 mile long beach on the North Shore of Massachusetts located in the City of Beverly, Massachusetts. It is located along West Street, in Beverly Farms. The beach is part of a strip of sandy coastline about one mile long, extending from a rocky enclave at Lees crossing Westerly to the Prides Crossing area of Beverly.