{"nrhp_refnum":"12000304","name":"Manomet Mills","other_names":["Manomet Mill No.1 &amp","No. 2","Delaware Rayon Co.","New Bedford Rayon Co.","Cliftex Corp."],"category":"district","location":{"address":"194-194R, 200 Riverside Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Bedford","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.66374400000004,"lon":-70.9193920217611,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of three contributing red-brick Classical Revival mill buildings (Mill No. 1, Mill No. 2 and the No. 2 Department Room) on about 11.4 acres along Riverside Avenue and the Acushnet River in New Bedford, Massachusetts, built 1903-1907.","why_significant":"The complex represents the large, self-contained brick cotton mills built as New Bedford shifted from whaling to textile manufacturing. It is tied to the cotton-textile industry and to mill architect/engineer Charles R. Makepeace, contractor Benjamin F. Smith and textile manufacturer William Whitman. It is also a well-preserved example of utilitarian industrial architecture.","narrative":"Manomet Mills is a group of early 20th-century cotton mill buildings on Riverside Avenue beside the Acushnet River in New Bedford. Mill No. 1 (1903) and Mill No. 2 (1907) are each three stories and 54 bays long, built of red brick on granite foundations with segmental-arch window openings. A two-story Department Room (1907), probably used for finishing and packing goods, stands to the east. The mills produced combed cotton yarn for hosiery and underwear, largely with an immigrant workforce, during a calm period in the city's labor history. The buildings were designed by Charles R. Makepeace, working with contractor Benjamin F. Smith and manufacturer William Whitman, who developed several New Bedford mill complexes. The district represents the city's shift from whaling to textile production and survives as a well-preserved example of utilitarian Classical Revival industrial design. Later owners kept the buildings in manufacturing use until the second half of the 20th century, and they are now vacant.","period_of_significance":"1903-1962","architect_builder":"Charles Roderick Makepeace","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant/not in use; the original engine and boiler houses were demolished in the first decade of the 21st century.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:51.536565-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/20/7944/63794420/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/12000304.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000304/fb2de60f48-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000304/fb2de60f48-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manomet_Mill_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manomet_Mill_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794420","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manomet_Mills","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16894624"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/manomet-mills-12000304/"}