department and offices had located in the former grist mill 

 located on-site at 38 Charles River Avenue (6,15). By 1912, 

 the Charlestown Bridge was relocated to its present location. 

 Charles River Avenue was terminated at the River's edge. By 

 this time, sanitary sewer connections had been provided to the 

 structures (15). By 1915, the Boston and Maine Railroad had 

 assumed possession of the track along Water Street (16) . 



Potter-Wrightington remained in business at 38 Charles River 

 Avenue until 1937. The Boston Globe leased warehouse space 

 from them for paper storage between 19 3 and 19 37 (6) . In 

 1937, the two brick structures on-site were demolished and a 

 wood- frame warehouse structure was constructed over the 

 existing piles in the Charles River (6,17). 



Between 1932 and 1941, Jason O'Connor operated a livery boat 

 out of the east dock side of the wharf (6). In 1944, repairs 

 were made to the warehouse, including the addition of new piles 

 (2,18). In 1947, the Boston Globe resumed leasing space for 

 paper storage until 1962 (6,20). 



In 1952, a one-story concrete block structure was built north 

 of the wood-frame warehouse (19). In 1962, the wood-frame 

 warehouse was re-sided with asbestos clad shingles and a shed 

 was attached to the west side of the building over the River 

 along Charles River Avenue (21) . Also at this time, an oil 

 burning furnace was installed in the concrete block building 

 with an above ground 5,000 gallon capacity No. 2 fuel oil 

 storage tank located between the two structures on the edge of 

 the sea wall (22) . 



In 1962, the property was purchased from the Tudor Wharf 

 Company by the Rapid Furniture Co. (6,21). At this time the 

 Boston Globe had vacated the warehouse and the Usen Canning 

 Warehouse leased part of the premises from the Tudor Wharf 

 Company until 1976 (6). The I.R.S. rented the warehouse in 

 1979 for the storage of tax forms (23). In 1986, six natural 

 gas-fired hot air blowers were installed in the wood-frame 

 building (2,24) . 



The Rapid Furniture Company retains ownership of the property 

 at present. During its ownership, in addition to leasing of 

 warehouse space to other companies, the furniture company has 

 used part of the frame structure for offices, furniture storage 

 and retail preparation (6,24). 



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