Category: Marlborough
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Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School
Marlborough, MA, 1973 by Alderman and McNeish If you want to experience an impressive collection of modernist municipal architecture, there are few better collections than the Commonwealth’s Vocational High Schools. From Marcel Breuer’s iconic Madison Park building (1968) in Boston all the way to Chip Harkness and the Architects Collaborative’s McCann Technical School (1963) in…
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Marlborough Registry of Motor Vehicles
Marlborough, MA, 1960 by Samuel Glaser This polite, round, little building has been greeting visitors to Marlborough on the Southborough border for almost 65 years. It is defined by its white brick and circular design with a facade broken up by full length windows framed by steel beams. It served as one of Metrowest’s outposts…
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RCA ‘Tower Building’
Marlborough, MA 1970, by Vincent Kling In a world dominated by the technology hub of Silicon Valley, it can be difficult to remember just how influential the Massachusetts tech scene was throughout the 20th century. In the 50s and 60s, the Route 128 highway encircling Boston saw the development of massive technology companies which themselves…