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Larrabee & Hingston Company, Main Shop Building, 19 Howley Street, Peabody, Essex County, MA

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Larrabee & Hingston Company, Main Shop Building, 19 Howley Street, Peabody, Essex County, MA

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Significance: The Larrabee & Hingston Company Main Shop Building (ca. 1840-ca. 1914) is significant for its association with Peabody's most important historic industry, the tanning of animal hides. The Main Shop Building is the major component of a support/service industry complex associated with the area tanning industry. Larrabee & Hingston, founded in 1931, was a custom builder of wooden tanning vessels and was the last such facility in the Northeast when it closed in 1997.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1499
Survey number: HAER MA-149-A
Building/structure dates: after. 1840- before. 1914 Initial Construction

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1914
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Peabody (Mass.)42.52431, -70.91878
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