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Larrabee & Hingston Company, Main Shop Building, 19 Howley Street, Peabody, Essex County, MA

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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 larrabee hingston hingston company shop main shop howley howley street peabody essex essex county massachusetts leather industry industrial facilities offices manufacturing aaron f clark lumber yard virginia h adams justine christianson mary kate harrington historic american engineering record john jeffers matthew a kierstead inc the public archeology laboratory the stop and shop supermarket company photo ultra high resolution high resolution manufacturing plants construction sites construction library of congress
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1914
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Peabody (Mass.) ,  42.52431, -70.91878
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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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