Durfee Mills
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Mill No. 2
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Location: | Fall River, Massachusetts |
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Built: | 1866 |
Architectural style: | Italianate |
Governing body: | Private |
MPS: | Fall River MRA |
NRHP Reference#: |
83000664 [1] |
Added to NRHP: | February 16, 1983 |
Durfee Mills is an historic textile mill complex located at 359-479 Pleasant Street in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Mill No. 1 was built in 1866 for the manufacture of cotton cloth. The company was named in honor of Major Bradford Durfee.[2] The mill complex is the largest, and most complete in the city. Mill No. 2 was added in 1871, and Mill No. 3 in 1881, raising the capacity to 109,360 spindles. It produced 23 million yards of cotton cloth annually.
After the Great Fall River Fire of 1874 the sloped roof was retrofitted with a flat roof to ease allow fire fighting. [3]
The company was liquidated in 1935. In 1968, the site was photographed by Jack E. Boucher as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey[4]
The mills were added to the National Historic Register in 1983.
Today, the site, along with the adjacent Union Mills is occupied by numerous retail businesses and a restaurant, and is known as the Durfee-Union Mills. The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has an office in the complex.[5]
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