Lonsdale Historic District - Lonsdale RI - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

The Lonsdale Historic District is a large, well-preserved industrial village, built in Rhode Island's heavily industrialized Blackstone Valley by the Lonsdale Company between 1833 and the 1920s. It includes two noncontiguous clusters of buildings, one on each side of the southern reach of the Blackstone River.

Lonsdale is one of the best preserved of the Blackstone Valley's many nineteenth-century factory villages. It was the seat of a regionally important textile concern and still documents in its physical form the representative industrial and community organization which dominated the Blackstone River valley a century ago--when a single manufacturing firm provided for and controlled not only the working lives of its operatives, but their educational, commercial, residential, and religious lives as well.

The two sections of Lonsdale are connected by the Whipple Bridge which carries Lonsdale Avenue over the Blackstone. Constructed at the site of an historic ford, the Whipple Bridge has been rebuilt and replaced several times.

New Lonsdale: The new village is set north and east of the curve of the Blackstone River which encloses the old village. Its industrial buildings are located on Mill Street, which stretches between Lonsdale Avenue and the district's other major thoroughfare, Broad Street, and include several smaller buildings and the huge Ann § Hope Mill.

Old Lonsdale: The industrial complex of the old village includes several mills (dating from 1833 to 19.CH), an unusual combined railroad bridge and dam (which carries a spur from the Providence-Worcester Railroad line to old Lonsdale), warehouses.

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Street address: Lonsdale Ave., Blackstone Ct., Front, Main, Cook, Broad, Mill, Cross and Blackstone Sts. Lonsdale, RI County / Borough / Parish: Providence Year listed: 1984 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event Periods of significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849 Historic function: Domestic,Industry/Processing/Extraction Current function: Domestic Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Secondary Website 2: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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