Word: millyard
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...where the America we know began," said Professor William Pierson of Williams College. "You could write the whole history of industrial architecture and technology of the 19th century right here." Professor Pierson was referring to one of the U.S.'s most imposing and historic industrial landmarks, the Amoskeag millyard, whose 139 red brick buildings line the banks of the Merrimack River for more than a mile in Manchester, N.H. This month the Amoskeag will begin to fall to the wrecker's ball. Ninety of the complex's buildings will be replaced with parking lots, and the moss...
...fledgling company employed a 19-year-old engineer named Ezekiel Straw, who would later become Governor of New Hampshire, to lay out a brand-new town. Straw produced one of the most cohesive urban designs in the country. With the millyard as the heart of town, he provided for a commercial district, corporation tenements, housing lots, a cemetery, public buildings and six public commons. The company donated land for schools and churches. The first building-which is among those to be wrecked-went up in 1838, the last in 1915. Over the century of Amoskeag's existence, the architectural...
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