The O'Hara Waltham Dial Company was a historic factory building at 74 Rumford Avenue 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, th ...
. The three story brick structure was built in 1897 by Daniel O'Hara, and housed his company, a spinoff from the
Waltham Watch Company
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the Un ...
which specialized in the manufacture of a variety of clock faces. The building had distinctive corner towers with panelled brick surfaces, although these were a later (early 1900s) addition. O'Hara's company operated until the late 1950s; the facility was then used in the manufacture of traffic signals and luggage.
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 v ...
in 1989.
On April 5th, 2019 the city of Waltham issued a Notice of Unsafe Structure for the building. On June 12th, 2019 it was decided that the building is beyond repair and must be demolished. Subsequently, the building was demolished. The lot is currently vacant with some of the original foundations remaining.
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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Industrial buildings completed in 1897
Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts
Watches
1897 establishments in Massachusetts
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