Mechanical Fabric Company

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]

Mechanical Fabric Company
Location55 Cromwell St., 40, 40R, 50, and 50R Sprague St., Providence, Rhode Island
Coordinates41°48′33″N 71°25′35″W
Built1891 (1891)
NRHP reference No.13001059 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 8, 2014

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

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