United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building
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United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building
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Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
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Built | 1929 |
Architect | George W.Fuller Co.; Parker, Thomas & Rice |
Architectural style | Art Deco |
NRHP Reference # | 80000668 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 19, 1980 |
The United Shoe Machinery Corporation Building is an historic office building at 138-164 Federal Street in the Financial District of Boston, Massachusetts. The steel-frame skyscraper has 24 stories and a penthouse, and was built in 1928 to a design by George W. Fuller and Parker, Thomas & Rice. It is one Boston's finest Art Deco buildings, including an elaborately decorated lobby. It was built for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, which at the time controlled 98% of the nation's shoe machinery business.[2]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
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Categories:
- Office buildings completed in 1929
- Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Art Deco architecture in Massachusetts
- Skyscrapers in Boston, Massachusetts
- Office buildings in Boston, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Boston, Massachusetts
- Boston, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs
- Boston, Massachusetts building and structure stubs