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Mill Community Record Putnam

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Community Name (Common)

Morse Mill Housing

Address or Location

53 Mill Street, Putnam

Specific Location

In the vicinity of Church Street’s intersection with Morse Street, including along Church, Morse, and Mill Streets.

County

Windham

Historic Designation

n/a

Associated Mill Complexes

Morse Mill (cotton)

Architectural and Historical Information

Number of Existing Buildings

Twenty-four.

Dates of Construction

Mid 19th c.

Housing Types

Vernacular

Brief Description

Consists of twenty-four multi-family wood-frame residential buildings situated in closely spaced rows along Church, Morse, and Mill Streets in the vicinity of the Morse Mill (#3646). Twenty-one of the houses are identified on an 1869 map of the area where they are listed as the property of the mill’s owners, M.S. Morse and G.C. Nightingale. The three additional residences were likely built shortly after the map’s creation. The majority of the houses consisted of one-and-a-half-story wood-frame duplex style buildings with side-gable roofs, full-width porches, and low shed dormers, however, several larger two-story tenements housing three or four families are also present.