[MassHistPres] Examples of clusters of workmans cottages

Amy H Griffin ahg240 at nyu.edu
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Hi Anne,

Cottage Street, which anchors the Historic District in Wellesley, retains
several 19th-century residences occupied by workers in a tannery-shoe
factory that stood on Washington Street. Another later example, more like a
company town designed for the white-collar employees of American Woolen
Company, is Shawsheen Village in Andover.

Best,
Amy Griffin
Wellesley, MA

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> From: Susan Ceccacci <sceccacci at aol.com>
> To: "annelusk at gmail.com" <annelusk at gmail.com>,
>         "masshistpres at cs.umb.edu" <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Examples of clusters of workmans cottages
>         in      Massachusetts
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> How are workman's cottages distinguished from mill housing?  Who was
> responsible for building them or making them available to workmen?  How did
> a workman qualify for such a house?  Are there specific architectural
> features or plans that distinguish them?
> Susan McDaniel CeccacciJefferson, MA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anne Lusk <annelusk at gmail.com>
> To: Masshistpres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
> Sent: Mon, May 24, 2021 1:04 pm
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Examples of clusters of workmans cottages in
> Massachusetts
>
> Dear All,   I'm working on a Study Report for a Local Historic District
> submission in Brookline that concerns a cluster of workman's cottages that
> were built, starting around 1820.  There are 11 cottages really close
> together on Hart Street and 5 cottages really close together on Franklin
> Court.      Are there any other clusters of workman's cottages in
> Massachusetts?  I gather there are some cottages near the old glass factory
> in Sandwich.
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Jarvesville-5FHistoric-5FDistrict&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Ei4l2_Xs1IQS6Ehxa-G4Lw&m=BnGzPWJdCt-y1dhki_VLjcepPGY8HOuFJkLgB6faMyQ&s=bSe3gvBXyWQ5Q5FV-ITcqt8yHVMh2QaBE1txiqF3NgI&e=
>    Could someone give me a street name for these cottages?  Those cottages
> would have been built by the glass company to house their workers.
> The houses on Hart and Franklin were moved in 1870 to these streets to be
> owned by Irish Catholic workers or rented to them. Eventually, all the
> houses were owned.  Many single women owned the houses, widows remained in
> the cottages for a long time, and houses were passed down from family to
> family.       With so many wealthy mansions already being listed and the
> threat of smaller homes being demolished to build McMansions, saving the
> humble cottages and telling the stories about the owners is worth the
> effort. Thanks so much for your help,Anne Lusk, Ph.D. 617-879-4887
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> From: Peter K Johnson <johnsonkpeter at gmail.com>
> To: Anne Lusk <annelusk at gmail.com>
> Cc: Masshistpres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Examples of clusters of workmans cottages
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> Reporting in from Hanover here...PAL recently completed Phase II of a
> three-phase update of Hanover's Historic Resources Survey.
> I've pasted below the expert from PAL's final report that mentions a
> cluster of workers' houses in an area of town that includes the site of a
> now-defunct munitions manufacturing facility.  The houses certainly are not
> as old as those you mention, but thought I'd pass along anyway.  (See last
> sentence in the 2nd paragraph.) The Historic Commission to date knows very
> little about these houses - or the structures PAL notes in the paragraphs
> below.
>
> Best regards,  Peter Johnson
> Chair
> Hanover Historical Commission
>
> An area, the National Fireworks Company (NFC) Historic District (No MHC
> Number) is recommended eligible for listing in the National Register of
> Historic Places as a historic district. The potential historic district
> would be eligible at the local level under Criterion A in the areas of
> Industry, Community Planning and Development, and Social History and
> Criterion C in the area of Architecture. The Fireworks Village has not been
> inventoried as an area, with only select buildings inventoried
> individually. The village is centered around the crossroads of King and
> School streets, extending south along King Street to the Drinkwater River
> and the former National Fireworks Company (NFC) on the east side of the
> road, and extending east to the intersection of School and Circuit streets.
> The area may extend along Circuit and Winter streets; however, additional
> research and survey would be required to determine this.
>
> The village was developed initially in the eighteenth and early nineteenth
> century as an industrial center with the Drinkwater River dammed by the
> early 1700s. Manufacturing occurred along King Street with development
> concentrated in the general vicinity forming a village. In 1899, the NFC
> acquired land on the east side of King Street at the Drinkwater River and
> established a large and successful fireworks production facility. During
> World War I, the NFC produced tracer bullets that were used by aviators to
> make sure their bullets hit intended targets, and was one of the only
> plants in the country to make the product. During World War II, the NFC
> produced munitions for the war effort. Following World War II, the NFC
> began to falter, and the company was sold off and subdivided. The complex
> is partially extant, with some buildings in use for other purposes. Other
> parts of the site were deemed to contain hazardous materials, and
> mitigation efforts are underway to clean the site up. The town also
> acquired a large portion of the land for conservation in the late twentieth
> century (ca. 1970). The NFC constructed the Drinkwater Hall Fireman’s
> Association, as well as at least 17 NFC built houses along School and
> Winter streets for the NFC’s employees. Furthermore, commercial buildings
> that supported the village were built in the late nineteenth and early
> twentieth century along King Street.
>
> The Fireworks Village is a good example of a nineteenth- through early
> twentieth-century town village that includes a mix of residential,
> commercial, institutional, industrial, and mixed-use buildings. The area
> contains properties on King, School, and Winter streets, Sunnyside Avenue,
> and Industrial Way. The buildings date from primarily the nineteenth
> century to the mid-twentieth century and include examples of styles popular
> in that time period. The area is a dense village setting, with buildings
> typically set close to the road on small lots. The buildings retain some of
> their original exterior materials, with some minor modern replacement
> materials and alterations. The district possesses integrity of location,
> design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.
> Furthermore, portions of the NFC’s manufacturing complex remain extant,
> although no longer used for firework production. It is recommended that an
> area form be created for the Fireworks Village to fully document the
> historic buildings not individually inventoried in MACRIS. Additional
> research is needed on the history of the area, to delineate the district
> boundary, define the contributing and noncontributing status of resources,
> determine the extent of integrity and exact period of significance, and
> complete a National Register nomination.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 2:53 PM Anne Lusk <annelusk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >    I'm working on a Study Report for a Local Historic District submission
> > in Brookline that concerns a cluster of workman's cottages that were
> built,
> > starting around 1820.  There are 11 cottages really close together on
> Hart
> > Street and 5 cottages really close together on Franklin Court.
> >      Are there any other clusters of workman's cottages in Massachusetts?
> > I gather there are some cottages near the old glass factory in Sandwich.
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Jarvesville-5FHistoric-5FDistrict&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Ei4l2_Xs1IQS6Ehxa-G4Lw&m=BnGzPWJdCt-y1dhki_VLjcepPGY8HOuFJkLgB6faMyQ&s=bSe3gvBXyWQ5Q5FV-ITcqt8yHVMh2QaBE1txiqF3NgI&e=
>   Could
> > someone give me a street name for these cottages?  Those cottages would
> > have been built by the glass company to house their workers.
> >       The houses on Hart and Franklin were moved in 1870 to these streets
> > to be owned by Irish Catholic workers or rented to them. Eventually, all
> > the houses were owned.  Many single women owned the houses, widows
> remained
> > in the cottages for a long time, and houses were passed down from family
> to
> > family.
> >      With so many wealthy mansions already being listed and the threat of
> > smaller homes being demolished to build McMansions, saving the humble
> > cottages and telling the stories about the owners is worth the effort.
> > Thanks so much for your help,
> > Anne Lusk, Ph.D. 617-879-4887
> > _______________________________________________
> > MassHistPres mailing list
> > MassHistPres at cs.umb.edu
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> Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 22:07:03 +0000
> From: Jane S Becker <Jane.Becker at umb.edu>
> To: Anne Lusk <annelusk at gmail.com>, Masshistpres
>         <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Examples of clusters of workmans cottages
>         in      Massachusetts
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> Hello Anne,
> There are a number of workers’ cottages in North Cambridge, built for the
> brickyard workers in the 19th century.  These are now scattered around
> Rindge Ave., and some of the side streets off of Rindge.  You can read
> about them in Arthur Krim’s book on Northwest Cambridge for the Cambridge
> Historical Commission.
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__watermark.silverchair.com_9780262367905-5Fc001800.pdf-3Ftoken-3DAQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW-5FErcy7Dm3ZL-5F9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAApQwggKQBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKBMIICfQIBADCCAnYGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMy7NuvtwbZBes3TYpAgEQgIICRzxqeSMfpAjYoHZ3mqPjJJpfY-2D2QtyaSeECr9pJ8DKRMY4-2DBsWC3Ue5VHdBcRLiYlQlwIwcHG7NQXT6nUQtWuA97b4x-5F2IDcEBSp9n8-2DCJ6JwsHazF7MLkET9hnh5QJKF80dw1G-2DLfTrXNXnXkIGg6nZL2Sw9nRkVZVwH2SmPMPiPhasb8LaF6IKp8yW-5Ffeq60sRStW1GqubajthrMzcm-5FI9-2DUs7taHobIxOmWG91pYPTsdYT0NqGi9aRfeGHw3m-5FtVGaBDxujghEBRX3LioE-5FcMuuh0Vp8duIucKEaXfX-5FK14u9XfK-2DWfaSz6sCNQhW5JZSmtmLvk9RTWBS3bmx1Wxs5kIO61NAzUtD14zQMl4mGg4WK37misMaD0OuT-5FT8WV01B89u-2DsxBwMjch8m2hWa14PwF9tFAfeusbGvWCsIjjx8rS2t1w-5FfcMcgaIQ8mG08NH2GHzcoGJMUxrlBZA6jBgBl20y1-2D92nvTmXMGC2vNWASqOTuioAjhd3W-5FUNW4gGfNwwHj55-5FULHLeQ7kiWRAXRlKOK9-2Dx2As7UjBNLw0rZTD6n6bbsBMMVx4Nwp3RUQsqPRCOsqUfayhNNbwmoUCD-5FnBl0wKpbGL-5FN-5FhLWG8lyb0JkcQCbeSPC7tKPBk-5FkyeTHE4xuGJKo-5Fg-5FaslajGhsXNKegwp-5F3CmAz4lFEE4ZcudtG69qQrg0Bu9dkQSz0fwYXvUWI6DZoX0yXH32VYXfWpvP55ShW5ywbs1GfmIkkmtYe0nLo0jAhJDI3rDL3PfS-5F6P-2DKE&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Ei4l2_Xs1IQS6Ehxa-G4Lw&m=BnGzPWJdCt-y1dhki_VLjcepPGY8HOuFJkLgB6faMyQ&s=E7V5pbi-B10_W1ida0shzEgAquJ7Nh5bS8YHV5j70wQ&e=
>
> Sorry for that shockingly long URL!
>
> I believe that there are other clusters of workers’ cottages in other
> areas of Cambridge (Central Square?  Cambridgeport?). Cambridge Historical
> Commission’s set of publications on Cambridge neighborhoods may be helpful.
>
> There are also some rows of workers’ housing in Waltham, quite early
> buildings, as I recall.  But I can’t point you to the street.  Perhaps
> someone at the Charles River Museum or the Waltham Historical Commission
> can help out here.
>
> Jane
>
> Jane Becker, PhD
> Director of Public History
> History Department
> University of Massachusetts, Boston
> Jane.becker at umb.edu<mailto:Jane.becker at umb.edu>
> Ph: 617-287-6885
> Fax: 617-287-6899
> --
>
>
> From: MassHistPres <masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu> on behalf of Anne
> Lusk <annelusk at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, May 24, 2021 at 2:53 PM
> To: Masshistpres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
> Subject: [MassHistPres] Examples of clusters of workmans cottages in
> Massachusetts
> EXTERNAL SENDER
> Dear All,
>    I'm working on a Study Report for a Local Historic District submission
> in Brookline that concerns a cluster of workman's cottages that were built,
> starting around 1820.  There are 11 cottages really close together on Hart
> Street and 5 cottages really close together on Franklin Court.
>      Are there any other clusters of workman's cottages in Massachusetts?
> I gather there are some cottages near the old glass factory in Sandwich.
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Jarvesville-5FHistoric-5FDistrict&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=Ei4l2_Xs1IQS6Ehxa-G4Lw&m=BnGzPWJdCt-y1dhki_VLjcepPGY8HOuFJkLgB6faMyQ&s=bSe3gvBXyWQ5Q5FV-ITcqt8yHVMh2QaBE1txiqF3NgI&e=
> <
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> >   Could someone give me a street name for these cottages?  Those cottages
> would have been built by the glass company to house their workers.
>       The houses on Hart and Franklin were moved in 1870 to these streets
> to be owned by Irish Catholic workers or rented to them. Eventually, all
> the houses were owned.  Many single women owned the houses, widows remained
> in the cottages for a long time, and houses were passed down from family to
> family.
>      With so many wealthy mansions already being listed and the threat of
> smaller homes being demolished to build McMansions, saving the humble
> cottages and telling the stories about the owners is worth the effort.
> Thanks so much for your help,
> Anne Lusk, Ph.D. 617-879-4887
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