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| Location | West Warwick, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°43′12″N71°31′38″W / 41.72000°N 71.52722°W /41.72000; -71.52722 |
| Built | 1809 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000053[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 11, 1974 |
TheLippitt Mill is a historic mill at 825 Main Street inWest Warwick, Rhode Island.
The cottontextile mill was built in 1809, making it the third oldest in Rhode Island after John Slater's Mills in Slatersville and Samuel SlaterSlater Mill.[2] The Lippitt Manufacturing Company was founded by Revolutionary War officer,Christopher Lippitt, his brother Charles Lippitt, and Benjamin Aborn, George Jackson, Amasa Mason, and William Mason. During the Depression following of theWar of 1812 the Lippitt Manufacturing Company survived by supplying yarn to convict weavers in the Vermont prison. The company grew throughout the 19th century becoming a large profitable enterprise in which several generations of the Lippitt family were involved. In 1889, all of the Lippitt Company assets were sold to the firm ofB.B. Knight &Robert Knight, founders ofFruit of the Loom. In 1925, B.B. Knight sold the Lippitt Mill property to Joseph Hayes, owner of the Riverpoint Lace Works. The building was added to theNational Register of Historic Places in 1973. The Hayes family stopped manufacturing lace here in the early 1970s, but they retained ownership of the property until it went into receivership in 2008.[3] The mill continued operation until 2010, a bad economy forced the mill to close.[2]
A plan was announced in 2014 to convert the property to residences for people over 55.[2]
The mill is on theNational Register of Historic Places,[4] and is one of the earliesttextile mills in Rhode Island.
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