Boston Manufacturing Company Housing

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.


Famous quotes containing the words boston, company and/or housing:

    In Boston they ask, “How much does he know?” In New York, “How much is he worth?” In Philadelphia, “Who were his parents?”
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    In common with other rural regions much of the Iowa farm lore concerns the coming of company. When the rooster crows in the doorway, or the cat licks his fur, company is on the way.
    —For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    We have been weakened in our resistance to the professional anti-Communists because we know in our hearts that our so-called democracy has excluded millions of citizens from a normal life and the normal American privileges of health, housing and education.
    Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)