Lawton Place Historic District

Waltham, United States

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The Lawton Place Historic District in Waltham, Massachusetts preserves some of the nation's earliest textile mill worker housing. The district centers on duplex houses on the south side of Lawton Place, originally built circa 1815–17 by the Boston Manufacturing Company—the first mill to process textiles entirely under one roof—before being relocated to their present site in 1889. These structures exemplify Renaissance Revival architecture characteristic of the era. Across Lawton Place stands a rowhouse built in 1889, representing the final example of a once-common housing type for mill operatives. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, the district documents the evolving domestic infrastructure that supported New England's industrial textile production.