{"nrhp_refnum":"73000296","name":"Windsor Print Works","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"121 Union St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Adams","county":"Berkshire County","state":"MA","lat":42.700734056000044,"lon":-73.10458084199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of twelve brick mill buildings on nine acres at Union and Cliff Streets (121 Union Street) in North Adams, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with surviving buildings dating from 1872 to 1897 on a site used for printing since 1828.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it was the first cotton-fabric print works in Western Massachusetts and one of the first in the country, and the first U.S. mill to nap printed cotton flannels. It is also presented as one of the oldest and most attractive mill complexes in the North Adams area, exemplifying plain late-nineteenth-century mill architecture.","narrative":"Windsor Print Works is a group of twelve brick mill buildings covering nine acres at Union and Cliff Streets in North Adams. The surviving structures were built between 1872 and 1897 and stand two to four stories high, with slightly pitched gable roofs, regularly spaced rectangular windows, granite sills, twelve-over-twelve wooden sash and corbeled brick cornices. Power originally came from a canal off the North Branch of the Hoosic River, and company-built workers' houses face the site across Union Street. Printing on the site began in 1828, when Caleb B. Turner built a small mill for printing cotton cloth. The works is recognized as the first cotton-fabric print works in Western Massachusetts, one of the first in the country, and the first U.S. mill to nap printed cotton flannels. Ownership passed through several firms before the company took the Windsor Print Works name in the late 1880s. The buildings are also valued as plain, well-preserved examples of late nineteenth-century mill design.","period_of_significance":"1872-1897","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Simple, straightforward late nineteenth-century mill architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated fair; described as obsolete for its original purpose, with the site continuously occupied since 1828 and adaptive reuse as a community center for creative arts and education suggested.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.996976-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/7943/63794302/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/73000296.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000296/793e3ae3ce-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000296/793e3ae3ce-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windsor_Print_Works_North_Adams.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Windsor_Print_Works_North_Adams.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794302","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Print_Works","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8024679"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/berkshire-county/windsor-print-works-73000296/"}