{"nrhp_refnum":"84003501","name":"Kitson Woolen Mill","other_names":["Holland Thread Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"411 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stroudsburg","county":"Monroe County","state":"PA","lat":40.986919587000045,"lon":-75.18935236299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-building industrial complex of red brick in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, arranged in a U shape open to Main Street, now known as the Holland Thread Company and formerly the Kitson Woolen Mills. The main buildings were largely built between 1893 and 1904.","why_significant":"The complex is described as the oldest and largest textile mill in Monroe County and as a good example of 19th-century industrial building. Its wool cloth production under Thomas Kitson, its wartime blanket output, and its surviving mill construction are cited as tangible reminders of the county's textile industry.","narrative":"Built largely between 1893 and 1904 on the bank of McMichael's Creek in Stroudsburg, this red brick complex of four principal buildings forms a U open to Main Street. The west wing is four stories with a former bell and stair tower, and the east wing is three stories; both rest on fieldstone and use a mill frame of wooden beams and cast iron caps. Its site has held industry since an 1865 mill, and the present buildings date from the 1893 expansion under Thomas Kitson, whose cornerstone survives on the office. Kitson's firm became the largest textile operation in Monroe County, producing wool cloth sold in New York and reaching about 225 employees during World War I, when it made blankets for troops. It is valued as a well-preserved example of nineteenth-century industrial building. Operations ended with a 1978 strike and rising costs; the buildings have been vacant since.","period_of_significance":"1893/1904","architect_builder":"M.L. Phillips (contractor)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant since the mill closed in 1978; adaptive reuse proposed.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.899606-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/84003501.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003501/93fc842c71-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003501/93fc842c71-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KITSON_WOOLEN_MILL,_MONROE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:KITSON_WOOLEN_MILL,_MONROE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998309","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitson_Woolen_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6418353"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/monroe-county/kitson-woolen-mill-84003501/"}