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The Hamilton Millwright–Agent's House is a historic house at 757–761 Main Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built about 1840, it is a rare surviving house from the Hamilton Woolen Company's early period of worker house construction. It is also rare as a brick house of the period; they were not commonly built in Southbridge at the time.
The creek dam and sawmill (c. 1790) were rebuilt in 1984; the sawmill was restored in part for the 2007 season. The British Workshop (c. 1820) was rebuilt around 1994 on the site of the original. The millwright's house (c. 1820) was rebuilt in 2005.
Several adjacent houses date to the 1700s and 1800s; it is believed they housed tenant workers. Another house at 175 Cranbury Road was historically the millwright's house from the late 1700s onward, although a possibly-older house at 429 Clarksville Road, nicknamed "Ladyfair," may have been the original millwright's house before then. [3]
The Guenther House is a restaurant, museum and store located at 205 E. Guenther Street in the King William neighborhood of the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas. Currently operated by C. H. Guenther and Son. Inc., the home was originally built as a private residence in 1859 by Pioneer Flour Mills founder Carl Hilmar ...
A millwright is a craftsman or skilled tradesman who installs, dismantles, maintains, repairs, reassembles, and moves machinery in factories, power plants, and construction sites. [ 1 ] The term millwright (also known as industrial mechanic [ 2 ] ) is mainly used in the United States, Canada and South Africa to describe members belonging to a ...
Sheldon was grant then five square league (22,130 acres) of land on Rancho Omochumnes by the First Mexican Republic in 1843 by Mexican Governor Manuel Micheltorena as payment for carpenter work on the Monterey Custom House. Sheldon born on January 8, 1813, in Vermont and travelled to California 1832, working as a carpenter and millwright ...
Here, a brief history of Winfield House, the "official residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St. James’s." St. Dunstan's Villa was built in 1825.
The Gowers Report of 1950 was the first step in the postwar rescue of Britain's country house heritage." History Today (June 2020) 70#6 pp 22–24. online External links