Needham History: The Busy Corner Store
“A corner that has been – literally – at the center of Needham for nearly 170 years.” [caption id="attachment_133049" align="alignleft" width="800"] The 1887 birds-eye map...
A ‘People-first Design’ for Great Plain Avenue
March 15, 2024 • A fourth and final engineering firm presented its preliminary conceptual plans for the Great Plain Avenue redesign project to the Select...
A New Day for GPA?
March 1, 2024 • Great Plain Avenue is one of the most prominent roads in downtown Needham. The Select Board is now looking for a...
Needham History: The Old Cellar Hole
A vacant, weed-clogged lot - for twenty-nine years! The corner of Great Plain Avenue and Chapel Street around 1910, with the weedy Cellar Hole in...
Locals Offer Info, Insight in Needham-Centered Podcast
November 17, 2023 • It takes a dedicated pair of Town Meeting members to devote nearly four years and more than nine hours of commentary...
Needham History: What Happened to Center Station?
We hardly notice it now, but it was once quite special Two views of Needham Center Station when it was new, circa 1890. The top...