Wakefield Rattan Factory, Wakefield, Mass.

Title: Wakefield Rattan Factory, Wakefield, Mass.
Description: Postcard shows the Heywood-Wakefield furniture factory complex on Water Street. The view is looking north, with Water Street visible in front of the factory buildings.; The Wakefield Rattan Company buildings comprised a large complex on Water Street. The company closed the Wakefield factory in 1931 and consolidated their manufacturing at the company's Gardner, Mass. plant. The buildings housed a number of commercial and industrial businesses in subsequent years, when the area was known as the Robie Industrial Complex. The buildings were torn down in the mid-2000s after significant controversy and debate over their historic value. The site is now occupied by a Shaw's supermarket.; Card is undated but bears a postmark of 1906.
Contributor: Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Coverage: Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
Date: ca. 1906
Format: image/jpeg
Publisher: [Wakefield, Mass.] : A.H. Thayer
Subject: Heywood-Wakefield Company (Wakefield, Mass.); Furniture industry and trade; Wakefield Rattan Co.
Type: still image; Cards
Original Format: 1 postcard : tinted
Extent: 9 x 14 cm.