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Henry Wilson Shoe Shop

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Henry Wilson shoeshop
Henry Wilson shoeshop

The Henry Wilson Shoe Shop is an historic "ten footer" building located at 181 West Central Street, Route 135 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. Built in the 1850s, it was the shoe shop of Henry Wilson, a Senator from Massachusetts and the eighteenth Vice President of the United States. On July 24, 2000, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. A ten footer is a small backyard shop structure that was built in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. The name came from the fact that the floor dimensions were usually about 10 by 10 feet (3.0 by 3.0 meters). The ten footers were forerunners of the large shoe factories that developed in New England later in the 19th century.

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