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Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust
17 Mill Lane
Arlington, MA 02476
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mill encompasses three buildings; a factory built in 1861-1883,
a 1700s barn (now a Shaker Work Shops store), and a late
1800s dry house. Old Schwamb Mill's intact interiors and
vintage machinery interest the general public as well as
wood workers, industrial archaeologists, and architectural
historians.
In addition to year-round guided tours, Old Schwamb Mill
sponsors open houses, musical performances, children's programs,
art exhibits, and lectures. And the mill rents a variety
of spaces for receptions, work shops, corporate seminars,
and board meetings.
Directions:
From Boston/ Cambridge take Rout 2 west to Exit 58. Turn
right onto Park Avenue continuing across Massachusetts Avenue,
and following Park Ave over the Minute Man Bike Path bridge.
After the bridge turn right onto Lowell Street. At the end
of the Water Mill Place Condos turn left onto Mill Lane.
We are on the right side of Mill Lane--parking available
on site.
Phone:
781-643-0554
Contact:
Edward W. Gordon
Hours:
Saturdays and Tuesdays, 11 to 3.
Admission: Suggested donation: $5.00
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Old Schwamb Mill is a living document of nineteenth century
American industry, craftsmanship and technology that allows
visitors a glimpse into an exciting moment in our nation's
growth, and into the daily lives of the workers who created
it.
Since 1864 the mill has continued to produce high quality
oval and circular picture frames on belt-driven face plate
lathes brought from Germany by Charles and Frederick Schwamb
in the 1860s.
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