Farwell Mill
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| Location | 244 Lisbon Street, Lisbon, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 44°1′52″N 70°6′15″W / 44.03111°N 70.10417°WCoordinates: 44°1′52″N 70°6′15″W / 44.03111°N 70.10417°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1872 |
| Architect | William H. Stevens |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001260[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 20, 1985 |
The Farwell Mill is an historic former mill complex at 244 Lisbon Street (Maine State Route 196) in Lisbon, Maine. Built in 1872, it is a fine example of a cotton mill built at the height of the Industrial Revolution. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is now residential housing.
Description and history[]
The Farwell Mill is located in central Lisbon, at the junction of Village and Lisbon Streets and on the western bank of the Sabattus River. It is a large and sprawling L-shaped brick three-story structure. The building is minimally decorated, with corbelling at the cornice below the gable roof, and a four-story tower at the southwestern end whose top level has paired round-arch Italianate windows and a shallow-pitch hip roof with a broad eave. The complex was originally larger, with four-story additions to the south and west, but these have been demolished. Just north of the main building is a small single-story gas works building, one of the few of its type surviving in the state.[2]
The mill was built in 1872 by Nathaniel Farwell, a businessman with textile-related interests all over New England. This was the only full-scale textile operation he owned. It was built using the water privilege of one of Maine's earliest woolen mills, established in 1808, and expanded using a second water privilege just downstream that originally had a grist mill. Farwell's mill was reported to have a capacity of 12,000 spindles, and was an economic mainstay of the otherwise rural region for many years.[2]
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References[]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Farwell Mill". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
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