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302:. These piers consist of alternating bands of yellow brick and concrete on the first level, a molded concrete shield panel at the level of a band separating the first and second levels, and a decorative cornstalk-motif panel set in an otherwise brick pier at the second level. The two outer bays of each elevation are small, housing only arched entries; the outer bays have been enclosed with glass doorways, while that at the corner has a single recessed entry accessible via either arch. The central bay at the first level consists of an array of plate glass windows, topped by a metal 48: 921: 87: 62: 932: 94: 69: 282:. The company dammed the river, ran a railroad line to the area, and built what was essentially a company town organized around the production of paper products. The company retained architect Henry J. Hardenbergh to design its offices in downtown Rumford. He is probably best known for the first instance (no longer standing) of the 810: 297:
The building Hardenbergh designed is a two-story brick-and-concrete structure, standing at the southwest corner of Congress and Exchange Street. Its two street-facing facades are essentially identical, divided into three sections separated by projecting
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in 1906 for the Rumford Falls Power Company, the enterprise responsible for Rumford's main period of growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Gilbreth built two buildings in Rumford under the same contract, the other being the
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is a historic commercial building at 59 Congress Street in the central business district of
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The Rumford Falls Power Company was founded in 1882 by the Canadian-American entrepreneur
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Oxford County, Maine
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Rumford Falls Power Company Building is located in Maine
Rumford Falls Power Company Building is located in the United States
Rumford, Maine
44°32′41″N 70°32′47″W / 44.54472°N 70.54639°W / 44.54472; -70.54639
Henry J. Hardenbergh
architecture
MPS
Rumford Commercial MRA
80000243
Rumford, Maine
New York City
Henry J. Hardenbergh
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
Strathglass Building
National Register of Historic Places
Hugh J. Chisholm
Androscoggin River
Waldorf Astoria New York
Boston's
Copley Plaza Hotel
piers
cornice
medallion
entablature
dentillated
cornice
parapet
National Register of Historic Places listings in Oxford County, Maine

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