Lippitt Mill

Lippitt Mill
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	West Warwick, Rhode Island
Built	1809
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	No Style Listed
NRHP reference No.	74000053
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1974

Lippitt Mill is an historic mill at 825 Main Street in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

The cotton textile mill was built in 1809. The Lippitt Manufacturing Company was founded by Revolutionary War officer, Col. Christopher Lippitt, his brother Charles Lippitt, and Benjamin Aborn, George Jackson, Amasa Mason, and William Mason. During the Depression following of War of 1812 the Lippitt Manufacturing Company survived by supplying yarn to convict weavers in the Vermont prison. The company grew throughout the 19th century becoming a large profitable enterprise in which several generations of the Lippitt family were involved. In 1889 all of the Lippitt Company assets were sold to the firm of B.B. Knight & Robert Knight, founders of Fruit of the Loom. In 1925, B.B. Knight sold the Lippitt Mill property to Joseph Hayes, owner of the Riverpoint Lace Works. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The Hayes family stopped manufacturing lace here in the early 1970s, but they retained ownership of the property until it went into receivership in 2008. It was the longest continuously operating textile mill in the U.S. until it closed in 2010.

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