Lippitt Mill
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| Location | West Warwick, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°43′12″N 71°31′38″W / 41.72000°N 71.52722°W |
| Built | 1809 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000053[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 11, 1974 |
The Lippitt Mill is a historic mill at 825 Main Street in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
History
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The cotton textile mill was built in 1809, making it the third oldest in Rhode Island after John Slater's Mills in Slatersville and Samuel Slater Slater Mill.[2] The Lippitt Manufacturing Company was founded by Revolutionary War officer, Christopher Lippitt, his brother Charles Lippitt, and Benjamin Aborn, George Jackson, Amasa Mason, and William Mason. During the Depression following of the 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.[3] The mill continued operation until 2010, a bad economy forced the mill to close.[2]
A plan was announced in 2014 to convert the property to residences for people over 55.[2]
The mill is on the National Register of Historic Places,[4] and is one of the earliest textile mills in Rhode Island.
See also
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[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b c Polichetti, Barbara. "Centuries-old Lippitt Mill complex in West Warwick reborn as apartments for the over-55 crowd". Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ "Lippitt Mills". Archived from the original on 2014-08-16. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
- ^ "NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESINVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
External links
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- Brief History
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. RI-338, "Lippitt Mill, 825 Main Street, West Warwick, Kent County, RI", 48 photos, 4 measured drawings, 8 data pages, 3 photo caption pages
- NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM
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- Industrial buildings completed in 1809
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
- Buildings and structures in West Warwick, Rhode Island
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Rhode Island
- Lippitt family
- Lace
- Cotton mills in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Rhode Island
- Kent County, Rhode Island Registered Historic Place stubs