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The heart of the city is Waltham Common, which is home to Waltham City Hall and various memorial statues. The Common is on Main Street, which is home to several churches, the Waltham Public Library, and Post Office. The city stretches along the Charles River and contains several dams. The dams were used to power textile mills and other ...
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 ]
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 ...
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
Waltham, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs (64 P) Pages in category "Waltham, Massachusetts" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
While the programming is typical of a steampunk festival, including art exhibitions, panel discussions on a variety of topics, steampunk music, crafts workshops, vendors, and performances, [1] the Watch City Steampunk Festival uniquely makes extensive use of its host city's public spaces and Waltham's unique place in the history of American ...
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.
Gore Place is a historic country house, now a museum, located at 52 Gore Street, Waltham, Massachusetts.It is owned and operated by the nonprofit Gore Place Society. The 45-acre (180,000 m 2) estate is open to the public daily without charge; an admission fee is charged for house tours.