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30-32 Atlantic Block, 401-403 Canal Street & 2 Amesbury Street, Lawrence, Essex County, MA
Location401-403 Canal Street & 2 Amesbury Street,
Lawrence, MA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS MA-505
Significance: 30 and 32 Atlantic Block are the finest surviving examples of Lawrence's original corporation boardinghouses of the 1840s and '50s; Unit 30, in particular, contains what is probably the best-preserved corporation boardinghouse interior remaining in the entire lower Merrimack Valley. Erected in 1847 as the eastern two units of the Atlantic Cotton Mills Corporation's Boardinghouse Block 4, these two boardinghouse units at 401 and 403 Canal Street, along with four very similar units erected for the Bay State Mills at 269-275 Canal Street, are all that remain of the dozens of corporation-owned boardinghouse blocks which once lined the streets of Lawrence. And while all four of the surviving Bay State units have been gutted for use as a warehouse, the two remaining Atlantic units are still, in large part, intact. The only major alterations to the two Atlantic units have been the removal of their original, shared rear ell, and the conversion of the ground floor of Unit 32 (the corner unit) into first, a store, and now, a bar.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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Photograph caption(s):
1. Canal St. (main) elevation, looking northeast
2. Canal St. elevation and Amesbury St. elevation slightly visible
3. Amesbury St. elevation
4. Amesbury St. elevation and rear alley
5. Cornice detail of Amesbury St. elevation
6. Interior, living room, first floor front
7. Interior, first floor rear, fireplace detail
8. Interior, second floor stairway and landing
9. Interior, second floor window detail
10. Interior, fourth floor hall
11. Interior, fourth floor dormer and small closet
12. Interior, fourth floor dormer, wall finish missing showing lathe
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