Nuttings on the Charles, Waltham, MA, circa 1915

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Nuttings on the Charles stands behind a stone wall and landscaped grounds, a large building with a green roof, broad porches, and American flags flying from the roofline. Behind it, a red brick factory building and smokestack show the industrial edge of the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts. The porches and grounds suggest a riverside dining or resort stop, set against the mills and factories that lined Waltham's river corridor in the early twentieth century. The contrast between the landscaped front and the smokestack behind places the scene in a river town where recreation and manufacturing sat close together.