Wellington Piano Case Company Building

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Wellington Piano Case Company Building
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Location Leominster, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°32′6″N71°45′21″W / 42.53500°N 71.75583°W / 42.53500; -71.75583 Coordinates: 42°32′6″N71°45′21″W / 42.53500°N 71.75583°W / 42.53500; -71.75583
Built1895
NRHP reference # 84002922 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 31, 1984

The Wellington Piano Case Company Building is an historic building at 54 Green Street in Leominster, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was built in 1895 by Frank E. Wellington, who manufactured piano cases for upright and grand pianos. [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It underwent conversion to residences in 2002.

Leominster, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

Leominster is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the second-largest city in Worcester County, with a population of 40,759 at the 2010 census. Leominster is located north of Worcester and west of Boston. Both Route 2 and Route 12 pass through Leominster. Interstate 190, Route 13, and Route 117 all have starting/ending points in Leominster. Leominster is bounded by Fitchburg and Lunenburg to the north, Lancaster to the east, Sterling and Princeton to the south, and Westminster to the west.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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Description and history

The former Wellington Piano Case Company Building is located on the west side of Green Street, a short way north of the junction of Massachusetts Routes 12 and 13, north of downtown Leominster. The building consists of three large sections, all of brick construction. The original central block is a four-story structure, finished in pressed red brick with granite sills, and a corbelled cornice. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings, and a six-story square tower with crenellated top projects near its center. To the left (south) it is connected to what is now a five-story structure with similar styling, and to the right is an attached two-story section. [2]

Massachusetts Route 12 highway in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Route 12 is a north-south state highway that runs through central Massachusetts from the Connecticut state line at Dudley to the New Hampshire state line at Winchendon.

Massachusetts Route 13 highway in Massachusetts

Route 13 is a 14.1-mile (22.69 km) long north–south highway in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

The Wellington Piano Case Company was founded in 1895 by Frank E. Wellington, who had risen through the ranks of other piano case manufacturers in Leominster. The main block, built in 1895, was lauded into the 1930s as one of the city's finest and most modern factory facilities. The southern addition was made in 1906, and was originally six stories in height; the top floor was damaged in the New England Hurricane of 1938 and removed. The northern addition, originally used as a dry kiln, was made in 1919. Wellington's company was the last piano case maker to be established in the city. [2] His company was later acquired by the Cable Piano Company. [3] The building, after standing vacant for some years, was converted into condominium residences in 2002.

Cable Piano Company

The Cable Piano Company or simply Cable Company was an American piano manufacturing company founded by Herman D. Cable in 1880. It was one of the largest piano makers in Chicago. It claimed to be "the world's greatest manufacturer of pianos, inner player pianos, and organs". In 1901, the company built a factory in St. Charles on 3.5 acres west of the Fox River.

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 "MACRIS inventory record for Wellington Piano Case Company Building". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
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