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Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill Number 3, 100 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

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Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill Number 3, 100 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

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Summary

Photogrammetric images were incorporated into the HABS/HAER collections in the summers of 1985 and 1986. Since the glass photogrammetric plates are not reproducible except with special permission, a reference print and film copy negative were made from one plate of each stereopair and from the most informative plates in sequential sets. The reference prints and copy negatives were then incorporated into the formal HABS/HAER photograph collections. The Photogrammetric Images Project was a cooperative endeavor between the HABS/HAER Division of the National Park Service and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
Part of Mohawk-Hudson Area Survey, a pilot study for the Historic American Engineering Record which was established in 1969 under the aegis of the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Significance: Known locally as the Mastodon Mill, the Harmony Mill No. 3 is exceptionally interesting for its decorative architectural treatment, uncommonly elaborate for an industrial structure. Although the building is nearly 1100 feet long, its finely articulated facade, mansard roof, and central tower make it a well-scaled element of the Harmony Mills complex, which includes mill buildings, power canals, workers' houses, and commercial structures. Harmony is one of the finest examples of a large-scale textile mill complex outside of New England, and it has played an important role in the economic development of Cohoes.
Survey number: HAER NY-5
Building/structure dates: 1871-1872 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1932-1937 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78003151

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Van Auken,D. H.
Cohoes Associates
Land, John
Harmony Mills
Industrial Properties, Incorporated
Day Court Builders, Incorporated
Ames Manufacturing Company
CCCS Corporation
Cohoes Industrial Terminal Corporation
Harmony, Peter
Garner & Company
Garner, Thomas
Wild, Alfred
Wild, Nathan
Johnston, Robert
Johnston, David J
Johnston, D S
Saco-Lowell & Draper Corporation
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of History and Technology, sponsor
American Society of Civil Engineers, National Headquarters and Mohawk-Hudson Section, sponsor
New York State Historical Trust, sponsor
National Park Service, sponsor
Vogel, Robert M, project manager
Massey, James C, project manager
Pollak, Richard J, project manager
Department of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, sponsor
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Burns, John A, AIA, project manager
National Park Service, sponsor
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, sponsor
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Location

Cohoes (N.Y.)42.78205, -73.70548
Google Map of 42.78205390000001, -73.705477
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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