The Haffenreffer Brewery is an intact example of 19th and 20th century industrial architecture. The complex's buildings were constructed between 1877 and the 1960s, a period during which they functioned as a brewery under the name of Boylston and then Haffenreffer. As the brewery operations expanded and changed, buildings were added both horizontally and vertically to create a complex of sixteen buildings.
Read MoreSome residents on Germania Street know that Samuel Adams beer and other products are made in the industrial complex on their street. But few seem to know the history behind the smokestack that stands at the end of the street, just beyond a maze of red brick buildings.
As the 20th century dawned, it was said that within a mile of Roxbury Crossing there were twenty-five breweries. Now, as this 100-year era begins to bow out, none are still running, though a new one is about to start up.
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