{"nrhp_refnum":"80003533","name":"Ashley and Bailey Silk Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E. Walnut and Pine Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.05934276700003,"lon":-76.54711594999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick industrial building, the Ashley and Bailey Silk Mill, at the intersection of North Pine Street and East Walnut Street in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1897 for silk manufacturing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the mill is a fine and largely intact example of late 19th century industrial architecture and one of the most intact industrial buildings of its period in the greater Marietta-Columbia area. It also argues the building is an important monument to Lancaster County's silk industry, which was once a major local employer and has largely disappeared through demolition and alteration of other mills.","narrative":"A three-story brick silk mill built in 1897 at the corner of North Pine and East Walnut Streets in Marietta. The building rests on a rough limestone foundation and has load-bearing brick walls laid in common bond, with thirteen regularly spaced bays along its long side, each holding two windows per floor under segmental brick arches. Original 15/15 light wooden sash remain in most openings. A brick tower at the North Pine Street corner rises slightly above the main block, and a one-story wing with wide doorways forms part of the original plan. Trustees purchased the lots in March 1897, and the Ashley and Bailey Company of Paterson, New Jersey rented and later bought the mill in 1908. It operated as a silk mill until the 1930s, and later served various industrial uses. It is regarded as one of the most intact examples of late 19th century industrial building in the Marietta-Columbia area, and an important record of the county's silk industry, which employed large numbers of workers from the 1890s.","period_of_significance":"1897-1936","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Largely intact with minor later additions on one side, including a small brick addition and a concrete block addition.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.165742-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003533.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003533/16e8d4aaa6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003533/16e8d4aaa6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marietta_A%26B_Silk_Mill_1_LanCo_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</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:Marietta_A%26B_Silk_Mill_1_LanCo_PA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84003446","name":"Marietta Historic District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/marietta-historic-district-boundary-increase-84003446/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996390","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_and_Bailey_Silk_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4805649"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/ashley-and-bailey-silk-mill-80003533/"}