Name/Title
Collins’ Market, cellar door & delivery vanEntry/Object ID
ph-50-53-nDescription
Collins’ Market, cellar door & delivery van; Pumping water out of the cellar door in back of the store. In 1841 the town erected this structure to serve as Wayland’s first municipal building and it was referred to as the Town House. For two years (1841 and 1842) Wayland Academy (a private school) met here in the classroom. After that is was used for a town school. In 1850 the Wayland Free Public Library was opened in the building. Town meetings were held in the upstairs hall from about 1841until 1871. In 1879 it was sold to Lorenzo M. Lovell. He converted the Town House into a dry goods and grocery store for the next 100 + years. About 1922 Lawrence Collins leased the store. The Collins remained here for nearly 60 years and today the building is still referred to as Collins Market. His two sons also worked in the store.The lease arrangement lasted over 30 years, until 1955 when the Lovell family sold the building to Lawrence Collins’ son. It was a meat market and food store into the late 1980s during which time it retained the flavor of an old market with wood floors and a meat counter with butcher.Collection
W. H. Folsom Shoebox CollectionAcquisition
Notes
(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)Made/Created
Artist
Folsom, Wallace HerbertLexicon
Search Terms
Folsom, Wallace Herbert, (1884 - 1954) –- Photographer Sudbury River -- Wayland, (Mass.) Canal bridge -- Wayland, (Mass.) Old Sudbury Road -- Wayland, (Mass) River Road -- Wayland, (Mass.)Dimensions
Height
3-1/4 inWidth
2-1/4 inGeneral Notes
Note
[Total 761 negatives from original shoebox of Folsom negatives]