The Harrington Block is a historic commercial and retail building at 376–390 Moody Street in

Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, ...

. The three-story brick building was built 1884-85 by Charles Harrington, a local real estate speculator who was also employed by the

Boston Manufacturing Company The Boston Manufacturing Company was a business that operated one of the first factories in America. It was organized in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, a wealthy Boston merchant, in partnership with a group of investors later known as The Boston A ...

. It is one of the city's few Queen Anne commercial building, and is the oldest commercial building on Moody Street to escape major alteration. The ground floor originally housed retail establishments (as it does now), while the upper floors were residential. The building was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1989.

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Commercial blocks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts {{WalthamMA-NRHP-stub

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