Jenckes Mansion - Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Posted by: BruceS
N 42° 00.732 W 071° 30.083
19T E 292874 N 4654157
Historic mill town house in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Waymark Code: WM4ZP9
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 10/18/2008
Views: 15
"The Jenckes Mansion is the best preserved building in the original Jenckesville mill village, one of six early nineteenth-century industrial hamlets that grew to form Woonsocket. The brothers--Job, Luke, and Moses--began their village on the Peters River in 1822 when they built Woonsocket's first stone, textile mill. In 1828 they expanded their operation considerably, building a secon mill and the mansion house. By the 1850s the village included a number of other buildings, mostly to house the Jenckeses' work force... The Jenckes Mansion is a fine example of a family-owned industrial community." - Woonsocket MRA NRHP document pg. 117.
Street address: 837--839 Social St Woonsocket, Rhode Island
County / Borough / Parish: Providence
Year listed: 1982
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Periods of significance: 1825-1849
Historic function: Domestic
Current function: Domestic
Privately owned?: yes
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Secondary Website 1: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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