95 Bridge St
Lowell, MA 01852, USA

Massachusetts Mills, 95 Bridge St Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

Massachusetts Mill is part of the Lowell Locks and Canal Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District, which is significant as the site of the Lowell Experiment, where the industrial revolution in North America was first initiated on a large scale. The manufacturing enterprises undertaken in Lowell, modeled after the previously successful Waltham Experiment, but on a much larger scale, provided the foundation for America`s modern industrial system, with emphasis on mass production and technological innovation, and capitalization and management under corporate control. Massachusetts Mills was chartered in 1839 and was the last of the eleven major manufacturing concerns to be established. The firm produced coarse white cotton goods until diversifying in 1893 and employed 1,700 to 2,000, mostly immigrant, operatives during its peak years. Operations ceased in 1928.

Massachusetts Mills, Cloth Room-Section 15, 95 Bridge St Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

The Cloth Room/Section 15 is part of the Massachusetts Mills complex, a former cotton textile manufactory significant in industrial history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and as part of the Lowell Locks and Canal Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District. The Cloth Room, a contributing building, was erected in 1839 and continuously expanded and altered through ca. 1935, when a major addition on the northwest side was demolished, resulting in its current configuration. The building was originally used for storage of raw cotton, and later for a variety of uses associated with cloth finishing, packing and shipping. Massachusetts Mills ceased operations in 1928; since 1937, the building has been used by the Sullivan Brothers Printing Company for printing of business and racing forms.