Chelmsford_Glass_Works'_Long_House

Chelmsford Glass Works' Long House

Chelmsford Glass Works' Long House

Historic residential building in Massachusetts, United States

The Chelmsford Glass Works' Long House is a historic tenement house at 139–141 Baldwin Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The building, built in 1802 by the Chelmsford Glass Works to house some of its workers, is a series of 1–1/2 story Cape style wood-frame houses joined into a single structure. The building is one of the earliest industrial tenement structures built in the country. The glass works was established after the Middlesex Canal was opened, and needed to provide housing for its workers in what was then a somewhat rural location.[2]

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The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

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  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. [2]
    "MACRIS inventory record for Chelmsford Glass Works Tenement House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-01.


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