Valley Falls Mill
Valley Falls Mill | |
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Location | 1359, 1361-63 Broad Street, Central Falls, Rhode Island |
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Coordinates | 41°53′55″N 71°23′20″W / 41.89861°N 71.38889°WCoordinates: 41°53′55″N 71°23′20″W / 41.89861°N 71.38889°W |
Built | 1849 |
Architect | Unknown |
Architectural style | Italianate |
MPS | Central Falls MRA |
NRHP Reference # |
78000012 [1] (original) 78000013 (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | April 26, 1978 |
Boundary increase | December 18, 1978 |
The Valley Falls Mill is an historic textile mill complex on Broad Street in Central Falls, Rhode Island. The complex consists of the primary mill building, a large Italianate brick four-story building erected in 1849, several outbuildings. a dam across the Blackstone River, and a portion of the original canal system which provided water power to the mill. The outbuildings include the gatehouse controlling waterflow into the canals, a small stuccoed office building now serving as a retail establishment, and a brick bath house built c. 1870 that stands just south of the mill race. The complex originally had a second mill building and power canal; that building was destroyed by fire, and its canal was filled in.[2] The main mill building was developed as housing in the late 1970s, including a sympathetic replacement for the second mill building.
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[2]
See also
- Valley Falls Company
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island
References
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- ↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 National Register nomination for Valley Falls Mill Amendment (Bath House and Office, reference number 78000013), available by requested from the National Park Service