12 Porter St., Taunton, Massachusetts. County/parish: Bristol.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 29, 2016. NRIS 16000570.
7 contributing buildings.
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.
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