Lippitt Mill, 825 Main Street, West Warwick, Kent County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum

Significance: The Lippitt Mill has continuously produced cotton textiles since it began operations in 1810. It is the second oldest cotton textile mill in existence in Rhode Island at the present time (the Old Slater Mill of Pawtucket predating it by approximately sixteen years), and is representative of the once numerous small textile mills of the state that were managed directly by their owners rather than through salaried agents.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-58

Survey number: HABS RI-338

Building/structure dates: ca. 1810 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: after 1860 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1871 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1917-1918 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000053

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1901

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