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On the opposite side of this doorway, there is a corresponding 1918 datestone, indicating when the building was built.

This one is telling us the year the Jersild Knitting Company was founded, without coming out and saying so. You're just supposed to know that somehow.

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On Doty Island in Neenah, Wisconsin, on May 22nd, 2024, was the former Jersild Knitting Co. building (built in 1918), nowadays an office building, on the east side of North Commercial Street (Wisconsin Highway 114), south of High Street.

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According to a Sanborn fire insurance map from 1918, this was a hoosiery factory, built in 1917 for the Rockford Knitting & Hosiery Co. The website Spokeo also says the building is from 1917. Now we know.

A bar was here later: A Budweiser neon sign occurs in the center window.

I hoped Google Streetview would tell us what the awning's sign used to say, but no. The vine blob developed sometime after August 2012.

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In downtown Freeport, Illinois, on August 15th, 2021, 301 S Van Buren Ave at the southeast corner of South Van Buren Avenue and West Jackson Street.

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The building is from 1907 but I don't know if the gate is from 1907. Maybe it is!

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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, outside the former Morotock Manufacturing Company, built in 1907 for the manufacture of overalls, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Danville Historic District (93000830 on the National Register of Historic Places), at the southeast corner of North Floyd Street and Spring Street.

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Specifically, it was an overalls factory.

At this viewing, in 2022, it had painted panels of oriented strand board in beige paint — filling up its gosh darn window holes!

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In downtown Danville, Virginia, on May 31st, 2022, the office wing of the former Morotock Manufacturing Company, built in 1907 for the manufacture of overalls, a "contributing property" in the Downtown Danville Historic District (93000830 on the National Register of Historic Places), at the southeast corner of North Floyd Street and Spring Street.

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Neither one is trying very hard to impress people! It's alright.

Do you prefer the board-formed reinforced concrete of the tall one, or the concrete masonry of the short one?

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In downtown Los Angeles on April 21st, 2019, the Maxfield Building (currently a 96-unit apartment building, built in 1925 as a garment factory, 100001603 on the National Register of Historic Places), and its neighbor (built 1989), on the west side of Santee Street, south of East 8th Street.

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Verwaltungsgebäude der ehemaligen Textilfabrik Ernst Engländer AG bzw. Greika-Werk IV. Berga 2018.

You might as well trust that the beds you buy are clean.

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In Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, on August 11th, 2017, the "Meadow Mill Furniture & Bed Company" in Meadow Mill, a Grade II building on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, erected in the 1870s, as viewed from Tiviot Way (A626 road) above the River Tame.

The River Tame flows to the River Mersey, which flows to Liverpool Bay on the Irish Sea.

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Different directional orientations of laydowns of bricks are abutting one another here.

Ah how our view of the foreground transition zone from gravel and grass to bricks gets messed with by the shadows cast by sun shining on bare branches. Gets messed with.

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In downtown Eaton Rapids, Michigan, on March 27th, 2016, on the grounds of the former Horner Woolen Mills off the east side of Main Street (Michigan highways M-50 and M-99), between Canal Street and Mill Street.

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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TE255 Pavements, Brick—Pictorial works.
NA6410 Textile factories—United States—Pictorial works.
QC381.4 Shades and shadows—Pictorial works.
F574.E33 Eaton Rapids (Mich.)—Pictorial works.

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