Bar room, looking southeasterly, Spa Building, Wachusett Reservoir, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 10, 1941

Title:: Bar room, looking southeasterly, Spa Building, Wachusett Reservoir, Clinton, Mass., Sep. 10, 1941
Sponsor:: Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission
Photographer:: Barbier, Ernest E., 1912-2007
Date:: September 10, 1941
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: Massachusetts Archives
Collection (local):: Massachusetts. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, Quabbin Reservoir, Photographs of Real Estate Takings
Subjects:: waterworks
real estate
residential structures
luncheonettes
interior views
Places:: Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > Clinton
Massachusetts > Worcester (county) > Wachusett Reservoir
Extent:: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 format)
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9p292v83d
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
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No known restrictions on use.

Notes:: Title supplied by cataloger.
Print in album volume MDWSC, Real Estate and Miscellaneous, Ware River Watershed Protection, Volume 35, Chief Engineer set
Also in album volume MDWSC, Contract 132, Spa Building Alterations Photographs 1-21
Built and opened in 1924, as ‘Metropolitan Spa’, a lunch room/restaurant; renamed 'Metropolitan Inn' about 1933, but closed 1935; acquired by MDWSC in about 1941, and used as a MDC Police station during World War 2; building alterations made in 1946; also known as Police Service Building; served both as a MDC Police Station for the Wachusett Section and an employee house through the 1980s; demolished, 2000s
Notes (acquisition):: Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission; Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Accession #:: EN4.06/1335x.MDWSC.RealEstate.W1737.Chief.Engineer
Identifier:: MDWSC_RE_W1737_CE

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