Maplewood Ave., SE jct. of Maplewood Ave. and Grove St., Gloucester, Massachusetts. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 26, 1996. NRIS 96000474.
Part of Gloucester MPS (NRIS 64500251).
2 contributing buildings.
The Gloucester Net and Twine Company is a historic factory in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It was the factory of one of Gloucester's most important fishing-related manufacturing businesses, founded in 1884. The complex was built c. 1899. The main factory building is a utilitarian wood-frame structure three stories high, six window bays wide and fourteen long. Its long facade, along Maplewood Avenue, is centered on a four-story tower, to the right of which is a single-story brick power supply building with Italianate detailing.
The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790156