Lehigh Valley Silk Mills

Lehigh Valley Silk Mills
Lipps & Sutton Silk Mill. June 2013.
Location Jct. of Seneca and Clewell Sts., Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°36′16″N 75°23′37″W / 40.60444°N 75.39361°WCoordinates: 40°36′16″N 75°23′37″W / 40.60444°N 75.39361°W
Area 1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built 1886-1904
Architectural style Other, Vernacular
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 93000356[1]
Added to NRHP April 29, 1993

Lehigh Valley Silk Mills is a historic silk mill complex located at Fountain Hill, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The complex consisted of two firms: the Lipps & Sutton Silk Mill, constructed between 1886 and 1904, and the Warren Mill constructed in 1895. The buildings are of red brick vernacular construction. The Lipps & Sutton Mill, designed by locally prominent architect A. W. Leh, has distinctive decorative features that include small corbeled corner turrets with pyramidal pinnacles of sheet metal. The Warren Mill is devoid of ornamentation. Lehigh Valley Silk Mills ended in bankruptcy in 1937. The buildings were renovated using a federal historic preservation tax credit, and contain private residences and government offices for the Fountain Hill borough.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Lehigh Valley Silk Mills". Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. A National Register of Historic Places travel Itinerary. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
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