Natick, MA, 1960, By Samuel Glaser
The Ewen Knight Corporation was founded in 1952 to develop radio technology for Harvard University’s Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts and would go on to become a major radio equipment distributor for observatories including the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The building was designed by noted Architect Samuel Glaser and distinguished by its white brick, unique entry canopy and extensive window walls along Pine Street in Natick. Time has not been kind to this building which has gone on to see a host of tenants including the United States Postal Service at one point. Changes include bricking up part of the windows with standard CMU blocks and removing the stark, modern canopy with a rounded corrugated metal covering. Still this once proud symbol of the era of the Space Race still stands overlooking Oak Street as a reminder of when we all had our eyes pointed upward.
New England Architect and Builder Illustrated, June 1959.
Ad for Spaulding Brick Co., New Hampshire Architect, May 1960
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