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The Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex (M&F Worsted; Artcraft Braid; Cathedral Art Metal Co.) is a historic mill at 25 and 39 Manton Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of a grouping of eleven industrial buildings on 4.4 acres (1.8 ha) in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, on the banks of the ...
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company Complex, 1896 [3]. The first building was designed in 1872 by Brown & Sharpe employee Thomas McFarlane. [4] It was a huge 66,000 square-foot structure made of brick, cast iron, and concrete, and held space for all the company's functions. [4]
In 1854, Wilson formed George F. Wilson & Co., a chemical merchandising firm in Providence, Rhode Island. That same year, Wilson approached Eben Horsford with the goal of expanding to develop and manufacture chemical products. Their first plant, in Pleasant Valley, Rhode Island, manufactured calcium sulfite. Horsford's first patent used calcium ...
Location of Providence County in Rhode Island. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence County, Rhode Island.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.
The Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Company Complex also known as the Bourn Rubber Company, Philips-Baker Rubber Company Complex is a historical manufacturing complex at 49 Westfield Street in the West End neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. The complex consists of three connected buildings constructed in three phases between 1885 and c. 1930.
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In the early twentieth century, the complex was the site of several labor strikes. In 1902, 800 workers went on strike over an increase in the pace of work and a reduction in their wages linked with the implementation by the 58-hour work week in Rhode Island. [5] Employees returned to work after one week. [6]
In June, St. Mary’s Home for Children, a residential treatment center serving youth in state care, welcomed a motorcycle club onto its North Providence campus to serve “as a deterrent to human ...