Boston Manufacturing Company Housing
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Boston Manufacturing Company Housing are historic buildings at 380-410 and 153-165 River Street in Waltham, Massachusetts
. The housing was for the Boston Manufacturing Company
, the earliest modern manufacturing facility in the United States, and a separate national historic landmark.
The housing was built in the nineteenth century and the two blocks of buildings were separately added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, was an early center for the labor movement, and major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th century industrial city planning,...
. The housing was for the Boston Manufacturing Company
Boston Manufacturing Company
The Boston Manufacturing Company was organized in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, a wealthy Boston merchant, in partnership a group of investors known as The Boston Associates, for the manufacture of cotton textiles. Boston Manufacturing Company gathered many of their trade secrets from the earlier...
, the earliest modern manufacturing facility in the United States, and a separate national historic landmark.
The housing was built in the nineteenth century and the two blocks of buildings were separately added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.