| 词条 | M.M. Rhodes and Sons Company |
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| nrhp_type = | image =TauntonMA_MMRhodesFactory2.jpg | caption = | location= 12 Porter St., Taunton, Massachusetts | coordinates = {{coord|41|53|54|N|71|5|57|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Massachusetts#USA | area = {{convert|1.9|acre|ha}} | built ={{start date|1861}} | architect= | architecture= Early Commercial | added = | governing_body = Private | mpsub=Taunton MRA | refnum=84002207[1] }} The M.M. Rhodes and Sons Company is a historical button factory complex at 12 Porter Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Established in 1861 and operational until 2014, it was one of the first successful papier-mâché shoe button manufacturers in the United States. Its surviving factory complex is one of the last early 20th-century complexes left on Taunton's once heavily industrialized south side. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.[1] Description and historyThe Rhodes Company factory is a complex of seven connected buildings, occupying {{convert|1.9|acre|ha}} on the southeast side of Porter Street, southwest of downtown Taunton. Its main building, constructed in 1880, is a long three-story brick structure oriented perpendicular to the street. The other buildings of the complex are attached to this one, roughly forming a U shape with a central courtyard that is open to Porter Street. The oldest building on the site, is a c. 1865 wood frame building that extends along Porter Street southwest of the main building. This building was expanded several times between 1865 and about 1922.[2] The M.M. Rhodes and Sons Company was founded in 1861 by Marcus Morton Rhodes, when he first began renting space on this site. Rhodes manufactured a variety of items, including parts for hoop skirts and a variety of nails and tacks. He eventually designed a papier-mâché shoe button-making machine, and this became one of the mainstays of the company business after supplies from France were cut off by the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. This prompted him to enlarge the physical plant, building the main plant that served the company until its closure in 2014. It remained a family-run business during this entire period.[2] See also
References1. ^1 {{NRISref|2008a}} {{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=TAU.258|title=MACRIS inventory record for M.M. Rhodes and Sons Company|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|accessdate=2016-09-11}} 3 : Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts|Buildings and structures in Taunton, Massachusetts|National Register of Historic Places in Taunton, Massachusetts |
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