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NEWTON (MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASS.)
CITY DIRECTORY
Vol. 1955 XLV
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, a Numerical Telephone Directory, a Map and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character ; also a
BUYERS' GUIDE
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
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Newton Glass Co .... left side lines and
36
Newton Memorial Art Co
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Newton Motor Sales Co
right top lines, back cover and 3 Newton National Bank. . front cover and 8
Newton Savings Bank. front cover, left top lines and 9 Newton Soutlı Co-operative Bank .. right side lines and 13
Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Co ....
back bone and inside back cover Newton-Waltham Travel left side lines and 47
Newton and Wellesley Ambulance Serv- ice . 2 Newtonville Electrical Co Inc right side lines and 18
Nonantum Coal Co .. right side lines and 14 Nordstrom H M Co. . right side lines and 35
North Star Valet Service left side lines and
13
Norumbega Stamp & Coin Shop
47
Nutting Merrill C ..
43
O'Halloran William E 28 Patterson Ralph M 27 Paul Luther Co 15
Paulini Bros Inc
front cover, right top lines and 23 and 29 Pilibosian Kasper .. right side lines and Rich, Bellinger & Mackay 35 top stencil and 20
Riggs Flower Shop .... right top lines and 19 Riverside Sand & Gravel Co . front cover, 15 and 46
Schwab Andrew N & Son right top lines and 44
Scipione Charles. . ribbon book mark and 40
Sherman Bros Inc ... . left top lines and 35
Short & Williamson Inc 19 Stone Mason H 28
36
Suvalle David Inc ... . left side lines and Thomas Benjamin M back cover, left side lines and 36 Transcript Publications Inc front cover and 32
Trefrey James T Realtor
right side lines and
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Tropic Heat Inc
Turgeon's Garage Inc 7 Vespa Bros Trust Inc right side lines and
15
Village Beverage Store Inc
left side lines and
29
Waban Market Inc
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Waltham Publishing Co
right side lines and
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Ware G R Jewelers Inc
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Waterman J S & Sons Inc
back cover and 21
West Newton Co-operative Bank
back cover, right top lines and
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West Newton Savings Bank
back cover, right side lines and
10
White Richard Sons Inc.
left side lines and
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White S A & Son
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Auburndale Co-operative Bank right side lines and 11
Auburndale Realty Co left side lines and 42
Barbour and Travis ...... front cover and 26
Boston Gas Co ...... right top lines and 24 Bradley R M & Co Inc .. left side lines and 41 42
Bryson George W
Burlen Robert & Son.
13
front stencil, left top lines and Carley Realty Co ... .left top lines and 43
37
Cate Henry F Inc
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Chandler Albert M Insurance Agency. .
right top lines and 27
Chandler J H & Son Inc .. left side lines and 25
Chestnut Hill Garage Inc 7 23
Clapper Co The ....... left side lines and
Cleveland Thomas V . left side lines and Conroy Funeral Home . left top lines and Corner G H & Sons. 45
43 22
Crawford Door Sales Corp of New Eng- land
18 43
Deane Norman H .... left side lines and Deerfoot Farms ...... left side lines and 30
DiCarlo Bros Inc. 16 Diehl F & Son Inc.
back cover, right side lines, 14 and Eddy C F Company
14
Edgar H E .. .left top lines and 31
Edwards Roy S Inc 30 Framingham Landscape Company The .. right side lines and 34
Frost Motors Inc ...... left top lines and 4
Fuller Alfred E Insurance Agency .... right top lines and 27
G & H Motors Inc. . right top lines and 4
Gordon John H & Son
back cover, left side lines and 41
Gregg George H & Son. right top lines and 22
Hastings Kenneth B .... front cover and 38 Howe Associates ... bottom stencil and 39
Hugo Pontiac Inc ...... left side lines and 5
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Ideal Concrete Block Co. . back cover and Kerrigan Brothers Inc 6
Kidder Peabody & Co 27
Langley Book Shop The 13
Leavitt W P Sons Co ..
left side lines and 46
Lyons Thomas J 22 MacMillan Richard R. . .left side lines Mayer Leon H ........ left side lines and 42 McMullin Automotive Service right side lines and 7
Moore & Moore Inc 25 Newton Buick Co 5
Newton Cemetery and Crematory left top lines
Newton Centre Savings Bank left side lines and 11
Newton Chamber of Commerce The .. C
Newton Co-operative Bank
front cover, left top lines and 12
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Burns John T & Sons Inc .. right top lines and
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INTRODUCTION 5
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GENERAL INDEX
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 800 city, county, state and national Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1955 edition of the Newton City Directory.
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Seven Major Departments
The seven major departments are arranged in the following order :-
THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, pages 8 to 21 on white paper, presents lists of city, county, state and federal officials; post office, public school and fraternal organization Directories; statistical review; historical sketch; and manufacturing, trade and civic surveys.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns is on white paper. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Newton, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, separately paged on tinted paper, contains the advertise- ments of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Newton. The advertisement are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a progressive community like Newton, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available, is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indis- pensable catalog of the numerous interests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
LIST OF STREETS BY POSTAL DISTRICTS is included on pink paper.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is on pink paper. In this section the names of the streets are arranged in al- phabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets anpear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of busi- ness having telephones.
THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE GUIDE is included on pink paper.
Municipal Publicity
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NEWTON
"THE GARDEN CITY"
(Courtesy Newton Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government: Mayor and Board of Aldermen; each of the seven wards rep- resented by three members: one alderman elected by the ward, and two aldermen-at- large elected from the ward on a general ticket; election held biennially on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November of the odd numbered years.
Population: 1954, 87,000 (Estimated).
Native Born Population : whole population.
86.3 percent of
Area: 18 square miles.
Altitude: 15 to 320 feet.
Assessed Valuation: 1954, $233,322,000 with $44.50 tax per thousand.
Playgrounds: 370 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: 1954, $13,493,000.
Financial: 1 national bank with 3 branches, 1 bank and trust with 7 branches; and 3 savings banks, 4 co-operative banks.
Church Buildings: 46. First church orga- nized 1633.
Building and Construction: Value of build- ing permits in 1954, $11,892,308; 882 per- mits.
Railroad and Bus Lines: Boston & Albany Railroad, M. T. A., and Middlesex & Bos- ton bus service. Newton is only 7.1 rail miles from Boston.
Amusements: There are 2 theatres and 1 amusement park. Theatres seating 2,700 people.
Hospitals: 1, with 260 beds.
City Statistics: Total street mileage, 294.578 miles, comprising 230.922 miles of accepted streets, 63.656 miles private ways, 5.14 miles State Highway, included in accepted streets. Fire department employs 233 of- ficers and men, 3 clerks, 15 motor pumping engine and hose cars, 2 aerial ladder trucks. 1 quadruple ladder truck, 1 lighting plant truck, 3 defense trailer pumps. 9 automo- biles and light trucks in 10 station houses. Police Department has approximately 185 officers, men and women and 18 pieces of motor equipment.
Education : Andover Newton Theological School, Boston College. Newton College of the Sacred Heart, Lasell Junior College, Mount Ida Junior College. Newton Junior College and Fessenden. Number of schools. 18, included are 26 Elementary schools, 4 Junior High schools, 1 High school and Technical-Vocational High school. 4 paro- chial schools. Number of punils in mublic schools. 14.844: in private schools, 1.288. in parochial schools. 2,664. Total of all educators in public schools is 674.
A Few Historical Facts
As early as 1631 Newton was settled and fortified. In those days Newton consisted of a large tract of land with a dwelling here and there. a most modest settlement, but the foundation. nevertheless. upon which rests the heantiful progressive city of todav. King's Handbook of Newton states "the do- main northward of the Charles was acquired from the Indian queen. the squaw-sachem, Nanenashement's daughter, one of her ner- anisites heino a new coat each winter as long as she lived "
Newton was incorporated a town in 1688 heino called New Cambridge until 1692: and having ontørown town government by 1873; was chartered a city in that year.
During the war with the Indians the men of Newton left their homes and families and fought with the rest of the settlers. There is a stone in Nonantum, known as the Elliot memorial, which bears this inscription: "Here at Nonantum, Oct 28, 1624, in Waban's Wigwam near this spot, John Elliot began to preach the gospel to the Indians. Here he founded the first Christian community of Indians within the English colonies."
During the period of the Revolutionary War, the men of Newton rose with the other men of Massachusetts and shared the hard- ships that the crude army led by the great George Washington endured. And so history repeats itself down the ages. There are many beautiful monuments and ancient landmarks, silent tributes to the men who so nobly answered the call to arms, from the early days when the settlers fought with the Indians thru World War II.
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