Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer

Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer
Location 36 William St., Stoneham, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°28′57″N 71°5′56″W / 42.48250°N 71.09889°W / 42.48250; -71.09889Coordinates: 42°28′57″N 71°5′56″W / 42.48250°N 71.09889°W / 42.48250; -71.09889
Built 1850
NRHP Reference # 84002821[1]
Added to NRHP April, 1984

The Shoe Shop-Doucette Ten Footer is a historic wooden building at 36 William Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, in the United States. On April, 1984, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The building sits at the back of the Stoneham Historical Society premises.

A ten footer was a small backyard shop structure built in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. The name came from the fact that it was usually 10 feet (3.0 m) by 10 feet (3.0 m) in area. The ten footers were forerunners of the large shoe factories that developed in New England later in the 19th century.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Hunter, Ethel A., The Ten-Footers of New England in Parks, Roger, editor, The New England Galaxy: The best of 20 years from Old Sturbridge Village, Chester Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 1980, pp. 134-139, ISBN 0-87106-040-X

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