Cumberland Mills Historic District

  • Also Known As: S D Warren Paper Mill

  • Vicinity: Both sides of Presumpscot River between railroad tracks and Warren Ave
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

The S D Warren Historic District is the finest example in Maine of good urban planning in the area of its industrial plant. The architecture, layout, and construction of the company housing give the present visitor the sense of time and place which arises from being placed within an unusual example of planned company housing from the last quarter of the 19th century. - NRHP, 2 May 1974


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1809/00/00 The Lewis-Warren House, Cumberland Street, is built by Major Archelaus Lewis. Squire Lewis, as he was called, purchased the property in 1804 and moved his family to the Federal style brick house five years later.
1854/00/00 S D Warren Work Warren and Daniell buy a mill and its water privilege at Congin Falls for $28,000. This town will later be called Westbrook. Producing paper with the pulp extracted from beating down rags, the mill manufactures about 3,000 pounds year.
1867/00/00 S D Warren Work Having bought out Daniell, Warren changes the name to the S D Warren Paper Mill Company.
1869/00/00 S D Warren Benefactor S D Warren provides half the money to build the Warren Congregational Church, of which he was a member. Warren built the parsonage in 1887 and is also instrumental in school construction.
1870/00/00 S D Warren Inventor Early on, S D Warren had realizes that wood pulp instead of rag pulp should be used in the manufacturing of paper and had been experimenting.
1871/00/00 Andrew Jackson Downing Contributing Architect Wooden Workers Cottages are built, 1871-1879. Two single and 2 double houses on Cumberland and 2 on Brown are from Design V: A Working-Mans Model Cottage in The Architecture of Country Houses by Andrew Downing. The cottages stand a 1.5 story.
1874/00/00 S D Warren Co pays works 75 cents a day in 1854 and a dollar a day by the Civil War, fair wages for his time.
1879/00/00 Charles R Goodell Civil Engineer Designed by civil engineer Charles R Goodell, the head dam is built on the Presumpscot River for the S D Warren Paper Mill.
1880/00/00 The S D Warren Paper Mill Company becomes the largest in the world, producing 35,000 pounds of paper per day.
1883/00/00 S D Warren Work S D Warren testifies before a Senate Labor Committee that his firm owns 150 houses with rents from $75 to $200 a year. Electricity is provided in some at $35 a year, water cost $10.
1886/00/00 John Calvin Stevens Architect S D Warren commissions Stevens to design a street of Shingle style workers cottages. Located off Brown Street, the new project is built in the same year and named Cottage Place. Two types of houses are erected, a gambrel roof style and a gable roof style.
1889/00/00 S D Warren Paper Mill Company begins construction on a sewerage system for its properties.
1899/00/00 Samuel D Warren Work Samuel D Warren quits his law practice to oversee the family's paper manufacturing business.

Places

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William L Longley House, Westbrook

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Particulars for Cumberland Mills Historic District:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Industry
Historic Use Library
Historic Use Manufacturing facility
Industry Mill Town
Historic Use Music Facility
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Architectural Style Queen Anne
Architectural Style Shingle Style Architecture
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 74000316
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Fassett and Stevens; Stevens,John Calvin I
Architectural Style: Queen anne, Shingle style
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Industry, Community Planning and Development, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1875-1899
Associated People: Warren,Samuel Dennis
Historic Function: Domestic, Education, Industry, processing, extraction, Recreation and Culture
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Manufacturing facility, Music facility, Library
Current Function: Domestic, Industry, processing, extraction
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Manufacturing facility

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