Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3

Hoosac Stores 1 & 2-Hoosac Stores 3
Location 25 and 115 Water St., Charlestown, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′21.1″N 71°3′28.3″W / 42.372528°N 71.057861°WCoordinates: 42°22′21.1″N 71°3′28.3″W / 42.372528°N 71.057861°W
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built 1875
Architect Fitchburg Railroad
Governing body National Park Service
NRHP Reference # 85002339[1]
Added to NRHP August 14, 1985

Hoosac Stores 3 is a historic warehouse at 115 Constitution Road in Charlestown, Massachusetts. (The street name was changed from "Water Street" to "Constitution Road" some years ago. The building at 25 Water Street has burned down.) These warehouses were built as part of wide-ranging state effort to draw trade activity to the Boston area by constructing a railroad to Albany, New York. This effort notoriously included construction of the Hoosac Tunnel, an expensive and politically controversial project in western Massachusetts. The Charlestown terminal was known as the "Hoosac Dock". The surviving building is owned by the National Park Service.[2]

The warehouses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Hoosac Stores 1 and 2". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-03.