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The Weave Sheds of New Bedford and their Place in American Industrial Architecture (2014)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 40
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 137-154
Publication date: 2014
Language: English

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24891938

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Theme Issue: New Bedford

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Weaving Industrial archaeology Textile Mills Architecture Buildings, Industrial 20th century 19th century New Bedford, Mass United States

In Massachusetts, New Bedford's primary development as a textile mill town was late for New England. Before 1880, only two large textile firms had been built, but for the next thirty years, with only a short hiatus in the late 1890s, a new textile concern was established almost every year. After 1895 this concentrated late development was to exhibit a building-type pairing that differed from the norm throughout the rest of the textile industry in New England. Although this distinctive architectural duality had its parallel beginnings in a dispersed fashion in other mill towns of the region, in New Bedford it came to dominate the industrial landscape. There, this architectural effort was channeled into two distinct building forms: the spinning mill and the weave shed. It is the unique concentration of the New Bedford weave sheds, built mostly between 1896 and 1910, that gives the city another historically significant place in American industrial architecture.

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Article Randall May Heath; Kingston Wm Heath (2014) Foreword. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 4-6). unapi

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