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Union Street is a street in Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts, near Faneuil Hall. Prior to 1828, it was also called Green Dragon Lane. [1] [2] Image gallery
The historic district extends along Main Street for about 0.4 miles (0.64 km), from Hamilton Street in the west to Coombs Street in the east. Anchoring the east end of the district is the 1810s house of Ebenezer Ammidown, whose family one of the leading forces in the creation of both the city's mills and its downtown.
Building at 52 Main Street: June 22, 1989 : 52 Main St. 14: Central Mills Historic District: Central Mills Historic District: June 22, 1989 : Roughly bounded by the Quinebaug River, North St., and Central St.
The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was one of the first houses built when Hamilton Street was laid out.It was built for Theodore Harrington, son of Henry Harrington, founder of Southbridge's Harrington Cutlery Company, a manufacturer of knives used in the manufacture of shoes.
The Mary E. Wells School is a historic school building at 80 Marcy Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1916, it is one the last known commissions of the architectural firm Peabody & Stearns. [2] It was built with funding from Mary E. Wells, wife of George Wells, founder of the locally prominent American Optical Company.
The principal road in Southbridge is Route 131, known as Main Street through downtown and East Main Street past the "AO Rotary" and through Sandersdale, a village on the town's east side. North-south roads include Eastford Road and Elm Street ( Route 198 ), and Worcester Street-Mechanic Street-North Woodstock Road ( Route 169 ).Also Gulpwood ...
The Maple Street Historic District consists of a cluster of ten similar worker cottages on Maple Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. They were built as part of an effort by the locally important American Optical Company to improve the quality of its worker housing in the 1910s. [ 2 ]
The land on which Glover Street was laid out was originally part of the Clarke-Glover Farm. In the 1880s a series of Gothic style 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story cottages were built at the northern end of Glover Street. Six of these in particular feature jigsaw-cut bargeboard trim decoration and are among the best preserved of their type in Southbridge.