History · Formerly the Seaconnet Mills
From granite walls and a world-first loom to the best office space in Fall River. Scroll down and the years move across.
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A group of Fall River manufacturers founded the Seaconnet Mills with $400,000 in capital. Henry C. Lincoln was president and Edward A. Chace treasurer.
The first mill was laid up in heavy blocks of Fall River granite and held 35,000 spindles. Those walls still stand.
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In October 1889, the very first working trial of the Draper Northrop automatic loom ran here at the Seaconnet Mills.
The loom refilled its own shuttle without stopping, so one weaver could run many looms. It went on to change how cloth was made worldwide.
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Enlarged to its full size, the mill ran more than 72,000 spindles with about 550 workers.
It turned out roughly 27.5 million yards of cloth a year, part of what made Fall River America's leading cotton city.
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Elias Reiss bought the mill in 1927 and ran it for fine cotton cloth, later as part of Howard-Arthur Mills. Jacob Ziskind took over in 1945.
Weaving went on until the late 1950s, when New England's mills went quiet. The machines left. The granite stayed.
On February 16, 1983, the Seaconnet Mills joined the National Register of Historic Places for their industrial history and 1880s mill architecture.
Group One Management acquired the complex and renamed it for its place in the middle of the I-195 and Route 24 cloverleaf.
Then came the restoration: granite and timber brought back, modern systems put in, and mill floors turned into offices.
The same granite walls now hold 183,357 square feet of restored offices, home to national companies, state agencies and local firms.
New windows, rooftop solar and an on-site team keep it improving every day.
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