Phillips Woolen Mill

Phillips Woolen Mill
Location Adams, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°36′23″N 73°8′5″W / 42.60639°N 73.13472°W / 42.60639; -73.13472Coordinates: 42°36′23″N 73°8′5″W / 42.60639°N 73.13472°W / 42.60639; -73.13472
Architect Unknown
Architectural style No Style Listed
NRHP Reference #

82001897

[1]
Added to NRHP September 30, 1982

Phillips Woolen Mill is a historic mill at 71 Grove Street in Adams, Massachusetts. The date of its oldest portions is difficult to assess: when it was cleary associated with the firm of Blackinton and Phillips in the 1850s, it may have already included portions of an earlier millworks on the site. Some portions of the mill show signs of Greek Revival architecture, which was no longer in fashion in the 1850s. Benjamion F. Phillips and Peter Blackinton engaged in a long-running series of partnerships, owning and operating mills in Adams. The partnership was dissolved in 1864, and Phillips took over what was known as the Greylock Woolen Mill. His enterprise manufactured "cashmeres, ladies' dress goods, and shawls" in its facilities into the 1930s, although the company went through a variety of transformations, being known at the end as the Adams Woolen Manufacturing Company.[2]

The mill complex was added to the National Historic Register in 1982.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Phillips Woolen Mill - Building 1". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-11-30.


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