Manchester Amoskeag Mills brick mile
— — a brick mile that outlived its work.
Not only on a wall.
“A continuous row of brick mill buildings along the east bank of the Merrimack in Manchester, running nearly a mile from Bridge Street south to Granite Street. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company built the complex through the nineteenth century into the largest cotton textile mill in the world. Seventeen thousand workers in 1910. The company closed in 1936; the buildings stayed. Restaurants, offices, and lofts now run the same brick corridors as the looms once did.
Manchester Amoskeag Mills brick mile, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Amoskeag Millyard runs along Canal Street on the east bank of the Merrimack River in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. The continuous row of red-brick mill buildings stretches close to a mile, from Bridge Street south past Granite Street. The river drops 54 feet through the Amoskeag Falls just upstream, the power that drew the company here in 1831. The Millyard Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and remains the largest contiguous brick mill complex in the United States.
The buildings are the work of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company itself, which laid them out in a single coordinated plan beginning in the 1830s and continuing into the 1910s. Brick laid in common bond, granite sills and lintels, slate or membrane roofs. The signature feature is the long unbroken row along the canal, set to a single roofline and a single window rhythm. The river-facing facade carries the company's clock tower, restored after the Amoskeag closure and still keeping time on Canal Street.
The company began at the falls in 1831 and grew through the nineteenth century into the largest cotton textile producer in the world by the 1910s, with roughly 17,000 workers and the surrounding city of Manchester effectively built around it. A strike in 1922 began the long decline; the firm filed for bankruptcy in 1935 and closed for good in 1936. The buildings emptied through the Depression. Adaptive reuse began in the 1970s, accelerated in the 1990s, and now fills nearly every floor.