National Register of Historic Places
Richards, Dexter, & Sons Woolen Mill
Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
The record
- Listed
- January 25, 2017
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 169 Sunapee St., Newport
- County
- Sullivan
- State
- New Hampshire
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings, 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 43.36604, -72.16383
- Reference number
- 100000468
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The story
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The Richards, Dexter, & Sons Woolen Mill is a mill building at 169 Sunapee St. in Newport, Sullivan County, built in 1905 in the Romanesque Revival and Colonial Revival styles. Edward A. Buss and James T. Kelley are named as its architects, and George H. Cutting & Co. built it.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in industry and architecture. Its period of significance runs from 1905 to 1950, reflecting the mill's 1905 construction and use by a single woolen manufacturer through 1950.
Physical character
The mill has brick walls on a granite foundation and a slate roof, with a five-story square corner tower topped by an ornamental copper finial added in 1905. Other features include gable dormers, an end cupola, brick corbels, a granite beltcourse, a radial brick chimney, and a brick office connected by a tunnel; slate roundels are inscribed 1848 and 1905.
Historical context
Dexter Richards became sole owner of the mill in 1867. The firm announced plans for a new brick mill in 1904, and George H. Cutting & Co. built it in 1905. William Ruger, Jr. bought the mill in 1980 and began a rehabilitation costing more than five million dollars in 2007.