Fitchburg Historical Society
50 Grove Street, P. O. Box 953
Fitchburg, MA 01420

Phone: 978-345-1157
Fax: 978-345-2229
E-mail: FitchburgHistory@Verizon.net
Web site: http://fitchburghistory.fsc.edu

Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Wed. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; first two Saturdays of each month 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Closed holidays; check web site or by phone to confirm winter hours.

Note: Brief descriptions of many of the Society’s holdings can be found by searching the museums’s holdings through the web site. There are news articles and furniture items not listed here. This may not be a complete list.

Furniture documents:

Note: Heywood and Charlton materials are in folders in the Society’s business files

Walter Heywood Chair Company

• Advertising card with view of works on one side and ad on other, no date
• Bill of sale, 1881
• Photograph of factory, no date
• Photograph of chair, with doll sitting in it, no date
• Photograph of factory buildings, 1921
• Photograph of painting of factory
• Photograph of buildings and people “after the Heywood Chair Shop fire,” 1888
• Illustrated catalog – chairs, bureaus, cribs, tables, dressing case suits, 1877
• Painting of Walter Heywood Chair Company, c. 1875

F. S. Edminster Co.

• Receipt for purchase of a lounge and chair

Charlton Company, Inc.

• Photograph of 1955 State House exhibit – furniture display
• Employee booklet with some company history, c. 1960
• Booklet – profit sharing plan for employees, 1958