Woonsocket Rubber Company Mill
Woonsocket Rubber Company Mill | |
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Location | Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
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Coordinates | 42°0′0″N 71°31′2″W / 42.00000°N 71.51722°WCoordinates: 42°0′0″N 71°31′2″W / 42.00000°N 71.51722°W |
Built | 1857 |
Part of | Island Place Historic District (ID90001348) |
NRHP reference No. | 89000334 [1] |
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Added to NRHP | May 1, 1989 |
Designated CP | September 13, 1990 |
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Woonsocket Rubber Company Mill is an historic mill at 60-82 Main Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The mill consists of a series of 3- and 4-story brick buildings built between 1865 and 1875 by Edward Harris, one of Woonsocket's leading businessmen. These buildings housed the Woonsocket Rubbert Company, one of Rhode Island's first manufacturer of rubber products, principally shoes, boots, and rubberized fabric. In 1910 the complex was purchased by the Falls Yarn Company, which used it for the production of fine woolen yarns.[2]
The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
Another mill owned by Woonsocket Rubber Company, known as the Alice Mill, named for the owner's mother, was located on Fairmount Street in Woonsocket. It was destroyed in a 2011 fire.[citation needed]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Woonsocket Rubbert Company Mill" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
- Industrial buildings completed in 1857
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
- Buildings and structures in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
- National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island
- Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
- 1857 establishments in Rhode Island
- Providence County, Rhode Island Registered Historic Place stubs