Larrabee & Hingston Company, Main Shop Building, 19 Howley Street, Peabody, Essex County, MA
Summary
Significance: The Larrabee & Hingston Company Main Shop Building (ca. 1840-ca. 1914) is significant for its association with Peabody's most important historic industry, the tanning of animal hides. The Main Shop Building is the major component of a support/service industry complex associated with the area tanning industry. Larrabee & Hingston, founded in 1931, was a custom builder of wooden tanning vessels and was the last such facility in the Northeast when it closed in 1997.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1499
Survey number: HAER MA-149-A
Building/structure dates: after. 1840- before. 1914 Initial Construction
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peabody mass
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shop
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howley
howley street
peabody
essex
essex county
massachusetts
leather industry
industrial facilities
offices
manufacturing
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virginia h adams
justine christianson
mary kate harrington
historic american engineering record
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matthew a kierstead
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Date
1914
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Peabody (Mass.)
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42.52431, -70.91878
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
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