 72 Jefferson Street, Marlborough, Massachusetts 01752 The historic Shoe Box Building, one of our first 
undertakings, is a good example of how Sandra & Anthony Antico Real Estate
carefully renovates old buildings, striving to maintain their character in
the neighborhood, while at the same time providing businesses with the
opportunity to benefit from all the modern conveniences found in a new
structure. All of our rehabilitated buildings are brought up to
standard building code and every effort is made to maintain their original
character.
See before and after photos, by clicking here. HISTORY ARCHITECTURE TENANTS LEASE AVAILABILITY
This large factory storage building at the west end of Jefferson Street
was once two buildings. Its original portion, built in the early HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE This factory complex is one of
the rare surviving illustrations in Marlborough of a smaller satellite
plant -- three, in fact -- of a larger manufacturing company. In the early
1890's, after the large S.H. Howe Shoe In about 1910, Jefferson Street, which had
formerly ended well east of this parcel, was extended past a new 1906
roundhouse on the site of today's 36 Jefferson. (It was extended through
to Hudson Street about twenty years later.) Shortly thereafter, B.A.
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1890's, is a long rectangular
two-story brick, flat-roofed building, with a large
three-story square tower abutting the northwest comer. Although the old
wire-glass windows of the main block have been replaced, the new sash is
set into the original double- and triple-unit segmental-arched openings.
The four that line the west end of the upper story facade are unusually
low in proportion. The windows of the tower, two bays on each side, appear
to have their original 6-over-6-sash. In recent years, brick, wooden,
corrugated metal and synthetic-sided additions have been made to the north
front, and east and west ends of the building. The latter now links it to
a long one-story wood-frame building with a shallow-pitched roof, its
gable-end facing north toward Jefferson Street. That building, clad in
synthetic siding over its original wood shingles, has triple nine-light
windows along the long sides. A hip-roofed ell abuts its northwest comer,
and a shed-roofed ell extends to the rear. (Taken from the Marlborough
Historical Society Records.)
Company had expanded under the
management of Louis P. Howe, it acquired this parcel of former Tayntor /
Howe farmland, and built the brick building. Although by 1894 S.H. Howe
was operating four major factories in the West Village, this was their
first building to have the advantages of a railroad siding location. Its
original function is not known, but by 1906 it was used as a warehouse, as
was a newer building just to the east. The large square tower at the
northwest comer of the brick building was used for tank storage.