Tag: natick
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Centros House
Framingham, MA, 1984 by August Associates Despite its name, Centros House is a six story, 166,500 square foot office building located on Old Connecticut Path in Framingham. The name comes from the British developer of the site, Centros Properties, continuing the English tradition of naming important office buildings ‘House’. The black steel and glass upper…
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Speen Street Office Buildings
Framingham, MA 1976-1980 by Hughes and MacCarthy This stalwart collection of modern office buildings began as a single headquarters for the Consolidated Group Trust insurance company in 1976 by the Framingham-based firm Hughes and MacCarthy. The site was chosen for its visibility from the Massachusetts Turnpike and significant regrading was done to lift the building…
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Point West Place
Framingham, MA, 1985 by Robert AM Stern This year at MetroWest Modern we are broadening the scope of our project to take a look at Modern architecture’s successor, Postmodernism. While we’ll still focus primarily on Modernism, it’s hard to ignore the rich history of Postmodern architecture that runs through the region. No building represents this…
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Natick Redevelopment Authority plan for Natick Center
Natick, MA, 1974 by CBT Architects Post World War II, the United States embraced a now controversial strategy known as Urban Renewal to forcibly redevelop large swathes of cities and towns that the government deemed unsavory or underutilized. The result is that many of our county’s largest and most unified modernist buildings sit on a…
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Carling Brewery/Prime Computer Headquarters
Natick, MA 1954, by Canadian Breweries, Engineering Division, renovated 1982 by Beckstoffer, Hunter & Associates When Carling Brewery opened on the shores of Lake Cochituate, it was hailed as “America’s Most Modern Brewery. The plant employed 250 union employees to create their signature Black Label beer using water from the nearby lake. After twenty years…
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Natick Village Mall and Hilton Inn
Natick, MA, 1979, by Richard L. Bowen and Associates When construction began on this combination strip mall and hotel along Route 9, the small factory town of Natick was beginning to see some big changes. While the site was still filled with the scent of fresh bread from the nearby Wonderbread Factory, on its other…
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The Ewen Knight Corporation Headquarters
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…
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Leonard Morse Hospital
Natick, MA, 1969 by Markus, Nocka, Payette & Associates, Inc. Natick’s Leonard Morse hospital was founded in 1891 through a donation to the town from the late Mary Ann Morse, a prominent local figure who’s husband Leonard owned a profitable shoe factory downtown. Initially acting mainly as a maternity ward and nursery, the hospital would…
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Memorial Elementary School
Natick, MA, 1969, Flansburg Architects Students and visitors enter this South Natick elementary school through a scenic path between a promenade of aged trees and a historic stone wall. This decision to set the building at the rear of its plot is actually one of many choices the architects made in order to create a…
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Fellowship Hall, Trinity Church–Presbyterian
Natick, MA, 1953, the Architects’ Collaborative (TAC) Built in 1956, the Fellowship hall for Natick’s Trinity Church – now known as Hartford Street Presbyterian Church – was designed as the first of a four building complex designed to reflect the four pillars of Church life: fellowship, education, meditation, and worship. The original plan would have…