August 27, 2009 – Historic Buildings of Massachusetts

Waltham Museum (Old Waltham Police Station) (1892)

by Dan/August 27, 2009June 12, 2011/Public Buildings, Queen Anne, Waltham

Waltham Museum

In 1871, an old schoolhouse on Lexington Street was converted to become Waltham’s Police Station. A new station was built adjacent to the earlier structure in 1892 and remained in service as a police station for seventy-two years. Afterward, it housed other city offices, but is now home to the Waltham Museum. Founded in 1971 by Al Arena, the Museum was housed for a time in the 1871 James Baker House, but from 2005 to 2007, the old Police Station was renovated to become the Museum’s new home.

Presbyterian Church in Sudbury (1835)

by Dan/August 27, 2009October 20, 2012/Churches, Italianate, Sudbury

Presbyterian Church in Sudbury

The earliest Methodist meetings in Sudbury were held in the schoolhouse of the town’s north-west district until 1835, when the town decided to no longer allow the use of school buildings for religious meetings. That year, a Methodist meeting house was constructed between Sudbury Green and the Old Revolutionary Cemetery. The church was expanded in 1896, but it now serves as the Presbyterian Church in Sudbury.