Gardner
Heritage State Park
289 Pearl Street
Gardner, MA 01440
Contact:
Bill Schold
Phone: 978-632-7897
E-mail: bill.schold@state.ma.us
Hours open to public: State Park open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. daily except Christmas and New Year’s
Archival collections
Contact: Bill Schold, Park Director, 978-632-7897
Location:
Heritage State Park Visitor’s Center, Lake Street, Gardner, MA,
3rd floor
Hours: Not currently open to public; by appointment only
Holdings: 2 file drawers of news articles, catalogs, photographs, and other materials
Descriptions:
Note: most of these materials are in file folders
- Heywood-Wakefield – Scrapbook of strike at Heywood, annual reports, history; price lists
- S. Bent – timeline of history
- Conant Ball -- articles and photographs
- Country Home Furnishings – catalog and photographs
- Gardner Machine Works – articles, history, campaign to save building
- R. Smith Colonial Furniture Factory Showroom – photographs, catalog pages
- Fontaine Bros. -- catalog pages
- Gem Industries – children’s furniture catalog pages
- C. H. Hartshorn, Inc. -- catalog pages
- Hedstrom Union – catalog pages
- Hitton Woodcrafters -- article
- John A. Dunn Co. – biography of John A. Dunn
- Nichols & Stone – catalogs and articles
- Philander Derby Co. -- articles
There are also folders with general information about the Gardner area furniture industry, furniture making, the “largest chair in the world, old furniture company advertisements, and photocopies of factory building photographs
Note: Also at the visitor’s center is an exhibit of Gardner furniture; at the State Park are tapes of conversations with immigrants to Gardner
