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Mill Conversion or mill rehab is a form of adaptive reuse in which a historic mill or industrial factory building is restored or rehabilitated into another use, such as residential housing, retail shops, office, or a mix of these non-industrial elements (mixed-use).[1]

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  1. 58 relations: Adaptive reuse, American Civil War, American Woolen Company, Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, Apartment, Arson, Baltimore, Boarding house, Central Falls, Rhode Island, Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, Condominium, Cotton mill, Cregg Mill, County Galway, Digital Equipment Corporation, Europe, Factory, Fall River, Massachusetts, Federation, Globalization, Great Britain, Gristmill, Hilliard Mills, Historic district, Historic preservation, Lawrence Heritage State Park, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Loft, Lowell Heritage State Park, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell, Massachusetts, Manchester, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Maynard, Massachusetts, Mill town, Mixed-use development, Monster.com, National Register of Historic Places, New England, New Orleans, North Adams, Massachusetts, Northeastern United States, Office, Paul Tsongas, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Pawtuxet River, Pennsylvania, Retail, Rhode Island, Samuel Slater, ... Expand index (8 more) »

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Adaptive reuse

Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Woolen Company

The American Woolen Company is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of men’s and women’s worsted and woolen fabrics.

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Amoskeag Manufacturing Company

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a textile manufacturer which founded Manchester, New Hampshire, United States.

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Apartment

An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Boarding house

A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years.

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Central Falls, Rhode Island

Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

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Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania

Chadds Ford Township is an affluent township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Condominium

A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual owners.

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Cotton mill

A cotton mill is a building that houses spinning or weaving machinery for the production of yarn or cloth from cotton, an important product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. Mill conversion and cotton mill are industrial buildings and structures.

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Cregg Mill, County Galway

Cregg Mill is a converted 18th-century watermill in the townland of Cregg, near Corrandulla village in County Galway, Ireland, approximately from Galway City.

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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Factory

A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Mill conversion and factory are industrial buildings and structures.

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Fall River, Massachusetts

Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Federation

A federation (also called a federal state) is an entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a federal government (federalism).

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Globalization

Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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Hilliard Mills

Hilliard Mills is a historic mill site located at 642 Hilliard Street in Manchester, Connecticut, west of Adams Street.

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Historic district

A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons.

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK) is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.

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Lawrence Heritage State Park

Lawrence Heritage State Park is a history-themed public recreation area dedicated to preserving the industrial heritage of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River.

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Loft

A loft is a building's upper storey or elevated area in a room directly under the roof (American usage), or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (primarily British usage).

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Lowell Heritage State Park

Lowell Heritage State Park is a public recreation area and historical preserve located in Lowell, Massachusetts, that protects and promotes the city's seminal role in the American Industrial Revolution.

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Lowell National Historical Park

Lowell National Historical Park is a National Historical Park of the United States located in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, United States.

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Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the tenth most populous in New England.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts.

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Maynard, Massachusetts

Maynard is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mill town

A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, often cotton mills or factories producing textiles.

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Mixed-use development

Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.

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Monster.com

Monster.com is a global employment website that was established in 1999 as a result of the merger between The Monster Board and Online Career Centre.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". Mill conversion and National Register of Historic Places are historic preservation.

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New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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North Adams, Massachusetts

North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Northeastern United States

The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Office

An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization.

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Paul Tsongas

Paul Efthemios Tsongas (February 14, 1941 – January 18, 1997) was an American politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1979 until 1985 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 until 1979.

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Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island.

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Pawtuxet River

The Pawtuxet River, also known as the Pawtuxet River Main Stem and the Lower Pawtuxet, is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Samuel Slater

Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution", a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System".

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Slater Mill

The Slater Mill is a historic water-powered textile mill complex on the banks of the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, modeled after cotton spinning mills first established in England.

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Textile manufacturing

Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.

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Valley Falls Company

The Valley Falls Company was founded in 1839 by Oliver Chace, in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, a historic mill village on both sides of the Blackstone River, within the modern-day town of Cumberland and city of Central Falls, Rhode Island.

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West Warwick, Rhode Island

West Warwick is a town in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.

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Wrentham, Massachusetts

Wrentham is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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See also

Industrial buildings and structures

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_conversion

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