{"nrhp_refnum":"83000729","name":"Wampanoag Mills","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Queguechan St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fall River","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.689068257500054,"lon":-71.13806200739367,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of monumental granite textile mill buildings on Quequechan Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, overlooking the Quequechan River and Interstate 195. The first mill dates from 1872 and the second from 1879.","why_significant":"The complex is a largely intact group of granite industrial structures, notable for the harmony of scale and proportion of its two large mills and for the survival of most auxiliary buildings. It represents a significant period of mill expansion in the 1870s and is cited under criteria A and C.","narrative":"Wampanoag Mills is a group of granite textile mill buildings on Quequechan Street in Fall River, set above the Quequechan River and Interstate 195. The first mill, built in 1872, is five stories of rough granite block with 12/12 sash, a slightly pitched roof and a wide bracketed wooden cornice. A nearly identical second mill followed in 1879, thirty feet longer. Picker houses, engine houses, a boiler house, a granite weave shed, an 1888 wood storehouse and a granite cloth room survive. The Wampanoag Mill Company was organized in 1871 during a surge in the city's textile expansion, and the second mill raised capacity to 64,872 spindles and 1,605 looms. Cornell and Beattie, local masons and builders, erected the buildings. The company closed in 1929, and the complex now houses a factory outlet store and other retail and manufacturing uses. It was listed for its intact granite architecture and its link to 1870s mill growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Built by the construction firm of Cornell and Beattie, local masons and builders; architect, if any, unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used by Fall River Knitting Mills as a factory outlet store and houses other retail and manufacturing uses; the mill company closed in 1929.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:57.693814-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/60/7897/63789760/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000729.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000729/d3bd830ba6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000729/d3bd830ba6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wampanoag_Mill_2.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:Wampanoag_Mill_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789760","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag_Mills","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966942"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/wampanoag-mills-83000729/"}