{"id":669,"date":"2009-08-27T03:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T03:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2011-06-12T05:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T05:41:20","slug":"waltham-museum-old-waltham-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Waltham Museum (Old Waltham Police Station) (1892)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,108,128],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-buildings","category-queen-anne","category-waltham","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}