Warren Street
MACRIS NWB.AE · area form, 1980
This streetscape form covers Warren Street from Merrimac Street toward Ocean Street, numbers 6–70 and 5–37. It gives 1845–1875 as the period, vernacular Victorian as the style, and no major intrusions. The form states that the street existed before 1830 and that the town accepted it, as laid out by George Burroughs, on 25 March 1834. It first ran only to Munroe Street and was later extended to Ocean Street and then Eagle Street.
Some houses near Merrimac Street predate the Ocean Steam Mills, founded in 1845; after that the street grew as working-class housing for the mill. Residents included shoemakers, carpenters, carriage makers, painters and men connected with the mill. The older houses near Merrimac Street are clapboarded, with symmetrical fronts and roofs running parallel to the street, and several hold two families. Nearer the mill site, later houses of two and a half stories face their gables to the street and have little ornament. Horace Bickford built 58, 60 and 62.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
