Market St.
MACRIS NWB.Y · area form, 1973
Market Street runs downhill from High Street to Merrimac Street. According to the survey, it was named Cross Street in 1646, was later known as Ordway Lane after the family that owned much of the land there, and became Queen Street in 1726. A 1792 deed still used Queen Street; a 1795 deed used Market Street.
A malt house stood at the foot of the street in 1690, and Abel Merrill leased a shipyard on Queen's wharf in 1764. St. Paul's Church, at the High Street end, began with a chapel of 1739. Its second church, of 1800, burned on 27 April 1920, and the present stone church was dedicated on 27 November 1923. The fire of 18 May 1934 destroyed buildings along Merrimac Street as far as Titcomb Street.
Buildings described include a brick store that Richard Bartlet put up in 1795, later used as a lace school, a Sunday school and a cotton factory; the Edmund Bartlet house of 1804; and the Stephen Frothingham house of 1790, which the Y.W.C.A. bought in 1891.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
