Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Title

Moving of the Cutler barn, Albion Street, July 15, 1948

Description

"The Wakefield Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars purchased a barn at 6 Eaton Street, once home for 'Farmer' Allen and later to Nathaniel Cutler, owner of Cutler Bros. grocery and grain store. Known as the Cutler Barn, the structure was moved to 357 North Avenue by the VFW where it became its headquarters. Prior to the move, the barn had been relocated to the Lincoln School yard. On July 15, beginning at 4:30 a.m., the structure was placed on a 22-wheel truck, a process that took two hours. The move began at 6:30 a.m. along a route that took it up Main Street to Albion Street to North Avenue, passing by Mike's Bob Shop, at the left of the photo, and Bradley Real Estate, at the right. After a short delay due to traffic on North Avenue, the 'procession' moved to Chestnut Street where overhead wires were removed and tree limbs were removed from a large tree opposite 128 North Avenue to let the structure pass. At 9:35 a.m., the building arrived at its destination, a lot once occupied by Crescent Wet Wash Laundry which had been destroyed by fore a few years earlier. The structure was remodeled into the new home of the Wakefield Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars."

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

Photo courtesy of Jean Nauss, the Nauss family and the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

Contributor

Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

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

D'Onofrio, Jayne M.

Coverage

Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield

Albion Street (Wakefield, Mass.)

Date

07-15-1948

Format

image/jpeg

Publisher

Wakefield, Mass. : Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department

Subject

Barns

Type

still image

Photographs

Original Format

1 picture: b & w

Extent

28 x 21 cm.