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Charles R. Makepeace
C. R. Makepeace & Company, established in 1889, was a nationally active firm of mill architects based in Providence, Rhode Island. It was dissolved in 1944. Charles R. Makepeace Founder Charles R. Makepeace was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina on May 20, 1860. He attended Duke University, then known as Trinity College, but left without graduating in 1880. He then worked on a number of cotton mills in Randolph County, NC, Randolph County, before eventually making his way to Rhode Island. He first practiced as a member of D. M. Thompson & Company in Providence. When David M. Thompson left the partnership to manage mills for Benjamin Knight, B. B. & Robert Knight (industrialist), R. Knight, Makepeace formed a new partnership, Hall & Makepeace, with established architect Clifton A. Hall. This lasted from 1884 to 1886. Hall was prominent as both a designer of industrial buildings as well as those that normally made up an architect's practice. In 1886 Makepeace left, and opened hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitman Mills NB
Whitman could refer to: People * Whitman (surname): includes a list of people with the name Places In the United States: * Whitman, Massachusetts ** Whitman (MBTA station) * Whitman, Minnesota * Whitman, Nebraska * Whitman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood * Whitman County, Washington Education In the United States: * Whitman College, an undergraduate college in Walla Walla, Washington * Whitman College, Princeton University, one of the six residential colleges of Princeton University * Whitman Center, a branch of Monroe County Community College in Monroe, Michigan * Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University Other uses * Whitman's, a chocolatier * Whitman Publishing * Whitman River in Massachusetts * Whitman Corporation, a defunct bottling company, later PepsiAmericas See also * Justice Whitman (other) Justice Whitman may refer to: * Bernard C. Whitman (1827–1885), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada * Ezekiel Whitman E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
