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Identifier/Call Number
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NEH 4.12
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Description
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Photographs of the exterior architecture of Harmony Mills in Cohoes
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Copyright Statement and Conditions governing use
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Copyright Undetermined; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
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Extent
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original digital photographs
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Notes
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Harmony Mills is a complete industrial complex that exemplifies the height of cotton mill technology for the period between the late 1860s and the 1880s, and encompasses the full range of building types. The district contains an intact architectural record of water-powered cotton mill manufacturing and associated nineteenth century housing for factory operatives. The unusually elaborate industrial and domestic structures were mostly constructed from 1836 to 1875 and are unified by their consistency of scale and materials. Most of the buildings are constructed of brick in Italianate and Second Empire styles with gray slate roofs. The mill district, Harmony Hill, is a complete neighborhood in itself, almost a quarter of the total cityΓÇÖs land area, spread over a hilltop at the northern edge of town. The resulting environment gives this part of the city of Cohoes a visibly distinctive character. The multiple human relationships within the factory are architecturally expressed in the various buildings, creating a remarkably intact example of what one historian has called ΓÇ£an organic, structured piece of industrial social engineering.
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Recommended Citation
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Please cite the Digital Scholarship Center at Siena College.
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