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48: 280:. Lowney's business was a great success, and experienced rapid growth over the next fifteen years, repeatedly expanding its presence in Boston's Commercial Street area. The availability of ready railroad access to this property in Mansfield prompted its selection for a major expansion, and the Lowney Chocolate Company was formed as a subsidiary to manage all of the chocolate production for both the Walter M. Lowney Company and wholesale customers. Lowney himself moved to Mansfield, where he was a prominent citizen until his death 1921. The company went through a series of corporate owners, who continued to use and develop the facility. It was closed in 2010 by 62: 897: 261: 87: 909: 441: 886: 94: 69: 934: 256:
railroad tracks. The complex contains seven buildings on 14 acres (5.7 ha), ranging in construction date from 1903 to 1995. The centerpiece of the complex is Building 1, a five-story brick building with centrally placed seven-story tower. Windows are set in segmented-arch openings separated
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by brick piers, with granite sills, and some openings now filled in with panels. The tower, three bays wide and one deep, has round-arch windows at the top level, and elaborate brick corbelling below the eave of the flared hip roof.
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in 2016 as an important local employer, and a good local example of Late Victorian industrial architecture.
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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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The former Lowney Chocolate Company plant stands on the north side of
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is a historic industrial complex at 150 Oakland Street in
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in the early 1880s by Walter M. Lowney, a native of
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Lowney Chocolate Factory is located in Massachusetts
Lowney Chocolate Factory is located in the United States
Mansfield, Massachusetts
42°2′22″N 71°12′52″W / 42.03944°N 71.21444°W / 42.03944; -71.21444
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Mansfield, Massachusetts
chocolate
Archer Daniels Midland
National Register of Historic Places
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Boston
Bangor, Maine
Archer Daniels Midland
National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts


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