Watertown Businesses

description - Lewando's press room. Three men and four women in this room. This room is for special dresses that require individual attention. Note all the cleaning solutions used to clean stubborn stains. Lewando?s French Dying and Cleansing Establishment… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Lewando's --Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 4024

description - Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners staff early 1900's. Workers in the cleaning part of the business. Lewando?s French Dying and Cleansing Establishment cleanses and dyes all kinds of fabrics and materials used as clothing or as draperies, upholstery… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Lewando's --Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 4021

description - Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners staff early 1900's. Office staff at Lewando's. Note the white starched uniform with black ties for most of the women. Lewando?s French Dying and Cleansing Establishment cleanses and dyes all kinds of fabrics and… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Lewando's --Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 4018

description - Lewando's at 896 Broadway, New York, NY. store front. subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- New York.; Commercial buildings -- New York City (NY.).; Lewando's --New York City (NY.) .; relation - Identifier - figure 4015

description - Lewando's brick building in Watertown Square during expansion construction, 1928-1929. Lewando?s French Dying and Cleansing Establishment cleanses and dyes all kinds of fabrics and materials used as clothing or as draperies, upholstery or rugs for… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Lewando's --Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 4012

description - Arsenal Street near Taylor Street. Ad reads "Antipas Jackson Blacksmith and horse-shoer. All branches of carriages and blacksmith work promptly attended to and executed in a thorough manner." His son, Charles F. Jackson is a surveyor. Sign in front… subject - Small business -- United States.; Entrepreneurship.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).Jackson, Antipas -- 1796-1876.; Arsenal Street -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 401

description - Front of Lewando's works, Watertown, Mass. Built in 1904, Alberto F. Haynes architect. Lewando?s French Dying and Cleansing Establishment cleanses and dyes all kinds of fabrics and materials used as clothing or as draperies, upholstery or rugs for… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Lewando's --Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 4009

description - Staff at Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners 5th Ave. and 14th Street, New York, NY. "Lewando's French Dying Estab.", "Chanut Paris Gloves", "M. Kaempfer's Moshcowitz Model waist lining and Metalic Whalebone Stays", "Moshcowitz Model waist lining on… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- New York.; Commercial buildings -- New York City (NY).; Lewando's --New York City (NY).; relation - Identifier - figure 4006

description - Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners, Fitchburg, Massachusetts store front. subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Fitchburg.; Commercial buildings -- Fitchburg (Mass.).; Lewando's --Fitchburg… relation - Identifier - figure 4004

description - Lewando's French Dyers and Cleaners, Temple Place, Boston. Boston store front. Dr. Shattuck, dentist sign. subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Commercial buildings -- Boston (Mass.).; Lewando's --Boston (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 4003

description - Lewando's, 332 Broadway, South Boston store front. subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- South Boston.; Commercial buildings -- South Boston (Mass.).; Lewando's --South… relation - Identifier - figure 4000

description - Cluster of five buildings on dirt road (western side of Church Street, at the corner of Main Street). The building on the right once stood on Main Street and was called Bright's Bakery. The steeple of the Methodist Church at the corner of Cross and… subject - Small business -- United States.; Entrepreneurship.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Bright's bakery -- Watertown (Mass.).; Main Street -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 381

description - Town affairs were carried on for ten years without a Town Hall. In 1846 a wooden structure close to the corner of Main and Church Streets was built. Part of Dr. Spring?s property was bought for 25 subject - Small business -- United States.; Entrepreneurship.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).Lenox, John.; Town hall -- Watertown (Mass.).; Methodist Church -- Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 374

description - Richardson Tavern, Belmont and Mount Auburn Streets, built before 1700 in Cambridge by Dr. Palgrave Wellington and moved to Watertown at a later date. The Tavern stored in the basement powder kegs and a 16" cannon but by 1770 it became useless… subject - Small business -- United States.; Entrepreneurship.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Richardson Tavern -- Watertown (Mass.).; Taverns (Inns) -- Massachusetts --… relation - Identifier - figure 362

description - Almshouse, formerly the Town Infirmary, Orchard Street, before its removal in 1931 to the rear of the school lot. The building was demolished in 1956. James Russell Lowell School in background. This is the second Almshouse, with the first one… subject - Watertown (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.; Poor house -- Watertown (Mass.).; Orchard Street -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 307

description - Built next to the gristmill in 1877, after the flood of 1866. The making of patterns, called patternmaking (sometimes styled pattern-making or pattern making), is a skilled trade that is related to the trades of tool and die making and moldmaking.… subject - Small business -- United States.; Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Factories -- Watertown (Mass.).;… relation - Identifier - figure 30

description - Architect drawing of a Boston Edison Building. Watertown Industrial Park: First building in a new Materials Management Center to be built for Boston Edison Company off Arsenal Street, Watertown, is this 85,000 square-foot warehouse supported by… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Boston Edison Company… relation - Identifier - figure 2978

description - Watertown Square corner of Riverside Street, formerly home of Convers Francis, first Unitarian minster in Watertown ca.1820. Operated for many years (until about 2009) as the Joseph A. MacDonald Funeral Home. subject - Small business -- United States.; Entrepreneurship.; Business.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; Funeral homes -- Watertown (Mass.).; Watertown Square -- Watertown (Mass.).; MacDonald,… relation - Identifier - figure 2924

description - Coolidge Tavern, south side of Charles River. History of the Coolidge Tavern attached to the postcard image. George Washington had tea here but did not like it. In his diary, he wrote "Thursday November 5, 1789: We lodged in this place (Watertown) at… subject - Galen Street -- Watertown (Mass.).; Watertown Street -- Watertown(Mass.).; Business.; Commerce.; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Commercial buildings -- Watertown (Mass.).; relation - Identifier - figure 2695

description - Buildings, early 1920's when the Armenian workers were arriving in Watertown. Frederic and Arthur Hood, trained under their father and after the U.S. Rubber Co. failed in Franklin and Chelsea, MA, founded a factory in 1896 in East Watertown. During… subject - Entrepreneurship.; Brand name products.; Industries -- United States.; Corporation.; Incorporation.; Business.; Commerce.; Factories -- Watertown (Mass.).; Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Hood Rubber Company -- Watertown… relation - Identifier - figure 2638