Gloucester Net and Twine Company

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Gloucester Net and Twine Company
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Location Gloucester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°37′15″N70°40′7″W / 42.62083°N 70.66861°W / 42.62083; -70.66861
Built1884
Architectural styleItalianate
MPS Gloucester MPS
NRHP reference No. 96000474 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 26, 1996

The Gloucester Net and Twine Company is a historic factory in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was the factory of one of Gloucester's most important fishing-related manufacturing businesses, founded in 1884. The complex was built c. 1899. The main factory building is a utilitarian wood-frame structure three stories high, six window bays wide and fourteen long. Its long facade, along Maplewood Avenue, is centered on a four-story tower, to the right of which is a single-story brick power supply building with Italianate detailing. [2]

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Gloucester Net and Twine Company". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-25.