{"nrhp_refnum":"06001190","name":"Bourne Mill","other_names":["Bourne Mill Division of Berkshire--Hathaway","Tiverton Industrial Park"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"844 State Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fall River","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.67029831500005,"lon":-71.17736966453643,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-12-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of 23 late 19th- to early 20th-century, mostly granite cotton textile mill buildings on a 20-acre waterfront site beside Cook Pond, straddling the Tiverton, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts boundary. The main mill was built in 1881.","why_significant":"The complex is a substantial surviving cotton mill built in 1881 and expanded through the early 20th century. It reflects Fall River-area textile manufacturing, including an early adoption of Northrop automatic looms in a 1900 sawtooth weave shed. The mill is also tied to a long-running profit-sharing plan and to the labor conflict of the 1904-1905 strike.","narrative":"Bourne Mill is a large cotton textile complex on the Tiverton, Rhode Island and Fall River, Massachusetts line, beside Cook Pond. Begun in 1881, it grew into 23 mostly attached buildings of granite and brick on about 20 acres. The five-story main building and its east ell were designed by George A. Chace, the company's first treasurer. In 1900 the company built one of Rhode Island's first sawtooth weave ssheds, designed by engineer Frank P. Sheldon, to house thousands of Northrop automatic looms. The mill also operated a profit-sharing plan for employees and was affected by the crippling 1904-1905 strike that closed Fall River's cotton mills. Textile production continued under the Bourne name until 1953, then under Berkshire-Hathaway until 1961. Later it became the Tiverton Industrial Park, used for storage and now largely vacant. Roof collapses and demolition have reduced the site, but many original buildings survive.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George A. Chace (designer of Buildings 1 and 2); Frank P. Sheldon (mill engineer and architect of the 1900 weave shed)","architectural_style":"OTHER: 19th- and 20th-century industrial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used for commercial storage and mostly vacant; the main building's mansard roof has collapsed and most of the 1900 weave shed has been demolished.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.059785-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7945/63794522/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/06001190.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794522","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/bourne-mill-06001190/"}