Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

WMGLD Mark A. Delory Facility, 480 North Avenue

Description

"The Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department's Mark A. Delory facility at 480 North Avenue opened in June 2013 with a rededication and open house held on September 29th. The facility is named in memory of Mark A. Delory, a member of the Gas Division who lost his life on June 24, 2006. The former garage at the site was named in his memory in 2007. The facility is on the same site as the Citizens' Gas & Light Company which the citizens of Wakefield voted to purchase at Town Meeting in 1893. The Town of Wakefield assumed operation of the plant on August 4, 1894. In 1943, the light department physically expanded its operations with the purchase of 9-11 Albion Street office for its business office which had previously been located in the Town Hall and the Wakefield Savings Bank (now The Savings Bank). In 1951, the Town received permission from Town Meeting to erect a new building for a garage on its North Avenue site to replace the original structure. That building was razed in 2012 to make way for the new building. The business office moved from Albion Street in June 2013. The Mark A. Delory facility now houses all WMGLD operations."

Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2014

Photo courtesy of JC Marketing Associates

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

480 North Avenue (Wakefield, Mass.)

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Subject

Gas companies

Electric utilities

Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture: b & w

Extent

30 x 17 cm.