{"nrhp_refnum":"76000294","name":"Eaton-Moulton Mill","other_names":["Gulliksen Mill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Walnut St. (formerly 37)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wellesley","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.325551390000044,"lon":-71.25415069799993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story coursed rubble stone industrial building at 37 Walnut Street in Wellesley, Massachusetts, built in 1853 beside the Charles River and Cordingly Dam, later converted to offices.","why_significant":"It is one of the few intact buildings in Wellesley from the Newton Lower Falls settlement, the town's earliest industrial development. Its machine shop was among the leading American builders of paper-making machinery until about 1900. It also keeps its open setting beside the dam, which most mills of the period have lost.","narrative":"Beside the Charles River and Cordingly Dam in Wellesley, this stone mill at 37 Walnut Street was built in 1853 after fire destroyed an earlier wooden machine shop on the site. The rectangular building has two stories, a full basement, an attic with seven dormers, and walls of coursed rubble trimmed with granite quoins and lintels. A brick addition was added in 1944. The mill belonged to the Newton Lower Falls settlement, the earliest industrial development in what became Wellesley, where paper making dominated the nineteenth century. Its machine shop, run by Henry and Harvey Eaton and Rufus Moulton, and later by Adam Beck, built paper machinery that was exported abroad. Conversion to offices replaced the windows and the original doorway and covered the dormers and gables with aluminum siding, yet the mass, materials and location remain. Its open surroundings are rare among surviving mills of the period.","period_of_significance":"1853","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated for office space and in use as an office building; windows, doorway, dormers and gable ends have been altered, and a brick addition was built in 1944.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:55.012443-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/40/7964/63796440/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/76000294.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000294/b2bcece18b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76000294/b2bcece18b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eaton-Moulton_Mill_Wellesley_MA_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eaton-Moulton_Mill_Wellesley_MA_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796440","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaton-Moulton_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5331331"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/eaton-moulton-mill-76000294/"}