The Mechanics Block Historic District is a historic district at 107–139 Garden St. and 6–38 Orchard Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts. It encompasses two segments of brick rowhouses that are back-to-back. The rowhouses are 2+1⁄2-story brick buildings, organized into mirror-image pairs, with a single gable-roof dormer piercing the side-gable roofs for each unit. They were built in 1847 by the Essex Company (the development arm of the Lawrence mill operators) as worker housing.[2]
Mechanics Block Historic District | |
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| Location | Lawrence, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°42′34″N 71°9′17″W / 42.70944°N 71.15472°W |
| Built | 1847 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001942[1] (original) 78000451 (increase) |
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| Added to NRHP | April 3, 1973 |
| Boundary increase | May 23, 1978 |
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and expanded in 1978.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MHC Reconnaissance Survey Town Report: Lawrence, 1986 (PDF pages 16, 22)" (PDF). Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 3, 2015.