Diamond Silk Mill

Diamond Silk Mill

View from Hay Street
Location Junction of Ridge Avenue and Hay Street in East York, Springettsbury Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°58′35″N 76°42′0″W / 39.97639°N 76.70000°W / 39.97639; -76.70000Coordinates: 39°58′35″N 76°42′0″W / 39.97639°N 76.70000°W / 39.97639; -76.70000
Area 9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built 1900
Architect Dempwolf, John A.
Architectural style Romanesque
NRHP Reference # 92000949[1]
Added to NRHP July 24, 1992

Diamond Silk Mill, also known as York Silk Manufacturing Company, is a historic silk mill located at Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by noted architect John A. Dempwolf and built about 1900. The mill is a 3 1/2-story, brick building with heavy timber frame trussing on a stone foundation, and measures 50 feet by 300 feet. It has a hipped roof, and features an octagonal 100-foot high smokestack and decorative corbelled brick cornice in the Romanesque Revival style.[2]

In 1910, the mill's business had increased such that it was noted by an industry periodical as becoming a full-time operation and hiring additional workers.[3] Silk manufacturing would become one of York's most important industries, feeding Lancaster's manufacture of umbrellas. A decline began with the Great Depression and continued with the introduction of synthetic fibers in the late 1930s, for which most York mills did not have equipment.[2]

The mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes John J. Calabrese (February 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Diamond Silk Mill" (PDF). Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Mill News" (PDF). Posselt's Textile Journal. Philadelphia: University of Arizona. October 1910. p. xi. Retrieved December 2, 2015. The Diamond Silk Mill, which has been operating on short time basis, [sic] is now running full time. Sufficient orders has [sic] been received, which will necessitate the employment of additional hands.


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