From Dave Brigham:
This brick building in downtown Waltham, Mass., hard by the commuter train tracks and across Moody Street from the wonderfully restored Boston Manufacturing Co. mill complex, dates to the late 1880s (stay tuned for a future post about the mill buildings). Now home to Italian restaurant Stazione di Federal (but temporarily closed due to a fire last year that occurred not long after the grand opening), this place has an interesting history, as with just about any commercial property more than 50 years old.
Prior to Stazione, this restaurant space was filled by Biagio Ristorante & Bar for 18 years. In May 2019, Biagio's owners announced they'd sold to the owners of Waltham's The Federal, a steakhouse located close to Route 128 in a relatively new development.
Prior to construction of this building, the site was a coal yard, per MACRIS, owned by Hamblin Hovey and then G.F. Frost (for more about Hovey, see November 9, 2016, "Brigham in Waltham, Part I"). According to MACRIS, in 1921, "Benjamin Wolk moved his pattern shop to the second floor of the building; later it also housed his wholesale plumbing supply business. His success enabled him to purchase the Hobbs Machine Shop on Felton St., and to move both commercial and industrial businesses to the new locations.
I'm not sure what, if anything, was here between the pattern shop/plumbing business/machine shop and Biagio's restaurant.
The restaurant's owners indicated in April that they hope to reopen in May after finishing post-fire renovations.
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