780 Memorial Dr., Cambridge, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1982. NRIS 82001918.
Part of Cambridge MRA (NRIS 64000275).
2 contributing buildings.
The B B Chemical Company is an historic office and industrial building at 784 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built in 1937 for the Boston Blacking Company, an adhesive manufacturer whose most famous brand name was Bostik, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott, and is a prominent local example of Streamline Moderne architecture. From 1979 to 1996, it served as the headquarters of the Polaroid Corporation. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 under the incorrect name "B and B Chemical Company". It is now owned by The Bulfinch Companies of Needham, Massachusetts.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790600