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NPS Form 10-900-i - - En,- 10-31-84
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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form - -
Continuation sheet 17
Item number 7
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37A -
Mill Office 1881:
This small yet monumental brick-trimmed stone building
terminates the vista north up Kingstown Road toward the center of
the village. Its location and elaboration herald the fact that
it was the nerve center of Peace Dale. The 1-1/2-story structure
has a high basement. Its stone walls terminate in an extremely -
heavy, corbelled brick cornice; there are brick panels below each
window. The windows have stained glass transoms. The high hip
roof is accented by gabled dormers and enriched at the ridge by a
massive chimney stack in brick corbelled out at the top above a
row of four small blind and open arches. Known as the "counting
house" within the Hazard family, this striking, more-or-less
Queen Anne style building is attributed to Rowland Hazard II,
whose office was here see photos #1 and #2. C
373
- The original Peace Dale Stone Woolens Mill 1847 et seq.:
The extant structure is a remnant of the 1847 mill building
preserved for its historic interest by the Hazard family when the
plant was greatly enlarged and converted for production of
worsted goods. Of the 1847 factory what survives is the 2-1/2story,
stepped-end-gable, 3-story, and belfry. The Greek Revival
style belfry is frame. From a panelled base section housing the
bell-there rises a delicate open framework forming a short spire
crowned by a weathervane in the form of a shuttle. The main body -
of the 1847 mill was replaced by a 1- and 2-story flat roofed
structure which in truth is but an appendage to a large 2-story
wing 37C. see photo #2. C
37C -
Wing added to the 1847 Mill 1847 et seq.:
The 2-story stone wing has a very low gable roof. Its end
wall on Columbia Street is incorporated directly into the
stonework of the relic-like remnant of the 1847 mill 373. The
long west wall of this mill as well as the east wall of the
reworked 1847 mill have what in effect are "ribbon windows" -continuous
banks of 12/12 sash with narrow, metal-clad posts
between. Most extant glazing is heavy, ribbed diffusion glass
see photo #2. C
37D
Laboratory and Store House c. 1875:
Small, 2-story stone structure with low pitched roof, wide
eaves. The lower story has few openings; there are S windows on
each side in the second story. Now used as offices, there is a