Marshall Street Building Listing
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- Building 1
- Built around the turn of the century as a storage and packing
facility, Building 1 is now home to C4, a community computing center run in
conjunction with Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. As MassMoCA
begins operations, the building will also likely house administrative
offices and ticket sales as well. The building, which has completed
renovation, contains 22,500 sq. ft. of office space within its three
floors. It has a brickbearing wall structure, with wood columns and
flooring, and a wood truss roof.
- Building 2
- Building 2, which is scheduled to be used for exhibition, storage,
and administrative offices, has architectural characteristics similar
to that of Building 1. The 27,000+ sq. ft. building, built during the
Print Works' major expansion from 1881-82, includes a basement in its
western half.
- Building 3
- This one story, L-shaped building, which extended from Building 2
into the Marshall Street courtyard, housed offices and workshops for
the Print Works and Sprague Electric. The 4,730 sq. ft. facility has
since been demolished.
- Building 4
- Built in the early stages of the
Arnold Print Works post-fire reconstruction (1870's), this building
housed steaming and finishing facilities for the print works. A
three story, brick bearing wall building with mostly wood (and some
steel) columns, it has a second-story bridge to Building 7. The
32,455 sq. ft. within will be converted into a three-story high
gallery space.
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- Building 5
- Built in 1881-82 for dyeing and drying the cotton fabric the the
APW produced, this 3 story brick bearing edifice has steel columns
and floors of reinforced concrete (stories 1 and 2) and wood (story
3). With 40,340 sq. ft., this building will serve as the second
major entry to MassMoCA's exhibit areas.
- Building 6
- Building 6, an enormous turn of the century building with brick
bearing walls and wooden columns and framing, owes its peculiar
shape to its position at the confluence of the north and south
branches of the Hoosic River. Bridges to Building 8 are located on
the second and third stories. Once an extension to the dye house
(Building 5) for the Arnold Print Works, this building will
eventually house exhibitions and a secondary museum entrance within
its massive 120,660 sq. ft. space (each of its three floors contains
about the equivalent of two football fields).
- Building 7
- Building 7, which adjoins Building 5, was built around 1881-82
as a "Bleach House." Rebuilt over the years, this 23,000+
sq. ft. building has a mixture of steel and wooden columns, with a
wood floor and framing which is mostly wooden.
- Building 8
- This narrow two floor building (5,660 sq. ft.) with
brick-bearing walls was constructed around 1881-82 for the Print
Works' "padding" operations. To be used for gallery space and
traffic circulation, this building spawns bridges to Buildings 6, 7,
and 21, with a new bridge built to reach Building 17.
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- Building 9
- Building 9, a boiler house which was renovated, altered, and
even partially demolished over the tenure of the Print Works and
Sprague Electric, has been demolished.
- Building 10
- Building 10, one of the oldest remaining buildings on-site,
served as a printing house under the print works. The brick bearing
walls support a building which has three stories on its southern
half, and four on the northern. With over 35,000 sq. ft. this
building, which lines the clocktower courtyard, will be available for
public usage.
- Building 11
- The former "Color Shop," built in 1881-82 has mostly
brick-bearing walls and lines part of the clocktower courtyard. Its
40,100 sq. ft. contains interior columns of steel and wood,
interior ones of wood, a steel-girdered wooden floor, and a wood
truss roof.
- Building 12
- Building 12 sits prominently in view of traffic coming from the
direction of Marshall St. and Route 2. Built between 1881-82, the
former "Store House" is a free-standing edifice with brick bearing
walls and only a few small windows- an ideal environment for the
display of art. With 24,000 sq. ft., the two-story building also
contains a low-ceilinged basement (5.5'). Its interior columns and
floor framing are of wood, and it is divided into eastern and
western halves by an interior non-brick bearing wall.
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- Building 13
- With 32,580 sq. ft. of space, this turn of the century three
story brick bearing structure has large and closely spaced windows.
Possibilities for its use include showcasing architectural exhibits.
- Building 14
- Built by Sprague in 1948, Building 14 was the central plant
building under Sprague, and is steel-framed with non-bearing brick
walls. This building will likely be used to house equipment and the
museum's control systems.
- Building 15
- Built at the turn of the century for storage and water
assessment, this four story building is now half its original size,
but nevertheless remains fairly impressive at 49,000+ sq. ft. Its
north and south walls are bearing brick, the east and west walls are
of non-bearing brick. Plans call for Building 15 to be the site's
architectural museum.
- Building 16
- A turn of the century five floor, wood-framed building with
non-brick bearing exterior walls, this building was listed in
relatively poor condition after years of warehouse traffic and water
decay.
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- Building 17
- Built in 1881-82 as a machine shop, this linear, 28,000+
sq. ft. building lines the southern bank of the south branch of the
Hoosic River. The western half of the building has three stories
and a basement, the eastern half 2 stories and a basement. The
building has brick bearing walls, though most of the interior
columns, flooring, and the roof framing are of wood. Building 17 is
currently used for storing the artifacts (Details) found in various stages of site
renovation.
- Building 18
- A one-story garage, originally built as the blacksmith shop
around 1900.
- Building 19
- A small, two story building with brick bearing walls.
- Building 21
- Built around 1881-82 as the "Indigo Dye" house, Building 21 is
an enormous 100,000+ sq. ft. edifice with three stories and a
basement. The long, broad rectangular structure is labelled as both
a resource and a dilemma by the 1989 Feasibility Study, since
it would be great for display but is in poor condition and has some
exposure to hazardous materials contamination.
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- Building 23
- A smallish (6,500 sq. ft.) steel-framed one story building with
non-brick bearing walls, set on grade by a concrete slab. This
building, originally built in 1919, was periodically added to,
redesigned, and demolished.
- Building 24
- A circular, concrete-encased water tank. Modern construction
and in poor condition.
- Building 25
- Modern-day, one story garage.
- Building 26
- Small, recently built (1951) for Sprague office needs.
Scheduled for demolition.
- Building 34
- Built by Sprague in 1951 for Personnel Offices, this building is
scheduled for demolition.