Mechanical Fabric Company

Mechanical Fabric Company
Location 55 Cromwell St., 40, 40R, 50, and 50R Sprague St., Providence, Rhode Island
Coordinates 41°48′33″N 71°25′35″W / 41.80917°N 71.42639°W / 41.80917; -71.42639Coordinates: 41°48′33″N 71°25′35″W / 41.80917°N 71.42639°W / 41.80917; -71.42639
Built 1891 (1891)
NRHP reference # 13001059 [1]
Added to NRHP January 8, 2014

The Mechanical Fabric Company is a historic factory complex on Cromwell and Sprague Streets in Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of six brick buildings, arranged in roughly parallel rows in a city block bounded by Cromwell, Sprague, and Dexter Streets, and Elmwood Avenue. They were built between 1891 and about 1925. The Mechanical Fabric Company was a major player in the city's rubber industry, and was particularly notable as the site of innovations in the development and manufacture of pneumatic bicycle tires.[2]

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.[1]

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Mechanical Fabric Company" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-04-15.

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