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Significance: The Boott and Massachusetts Cotton Mills Agents' House survives from the period when the Lowell mass-production experiment was regarded as a brilliant example of Yankee innovation in corporate entreprenuerial organization. The double house was built for the accommodations of the agents employed at the Boott and Massachusetts Cotton Mills respectively. It was also built as part of the well-organized housing system of a manufacturing town.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-331

Survey number: HABS MA-996

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1933 - 1970
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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