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Waltham (/ ˈ w ɔː l θ æ m / WAWL-tham) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution.
Waltham was incorporated as a city in 1884. Its City Hall, a 1924–26 Georgian Revival building designed by William Rogers Greely, stands on the common at the corner of Main and Elm Streets. The oldest municipal building in the district is the 1887 fire station at 25 Lexington Street; it is a brick Queen Anne structure designed by local ...
Boston, Massachusetts: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews. OL 23272543M. Edwin P. Conklin, Middlesex County and Its People: A History. In Four Volumes. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1927. Samuel Adams Drake, History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County.
City or town Description 1: American Waltham Watch Company Historic District: American Waltham Watch Company Historic District: September 28, 1989 : 185–241 Crescent St. 2: American Watch Tool Company
The Waltham Public Library is the public library of the city of Waltham, Massachusetts.Its main location is in the Francis Buttrick Library, an architecturally significant Georgian Revival building built in 1915, funded by a bequest from Francis Buttrick, a major landowner in the city. [2]
The Waltham Watch factory complex is located southwest of downtown Waltham, in South Waltham. It occupies about 8 acres (3.2 ha) on the south bank of the Charles River, bounded on the north by Prospect Street, the east by Crescent Street, and the south by wood-frame residential and commercial properties.
The Piety Corner Historic District encompasses one of the oldest settled areas of Waltham, Massachusetts.It is centered on a major road intersection, the junction of Totten Pond Road with Lexington and Bacon Streets, and includes the city's largest single concentration of well-preserved 19th and early 20th-century houses.
Lawton Place is a short street between Jackson and Amory Streets, a short way east of the Waltham's Central Square. On the south side of Lawton Place stand three wood-frame two-family residences, all vernacular structures with interior brick chimneys and brick foundations.