Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic District
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Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic District
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| Location | East Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°50′22″N 71°21′16″W / 41.83944°N 71.35444°WCoordinates: 41°50′22″N 71°21′16″W / 41.83944°N 71.35444°W |
| Built | 1857 |
| Architect | Unknown |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| MPS | East Providence MRA |
| NRHP Reference # | 80000007 |
| Added to NRHP | November 28, 1980 |
The Rumford Chemical Works and Mill House Historic District is a historic district encompassing the remnants of a historical chemical plant in East Providence, Rhode Island. The Rumford Chemical Works established its presence in East Providence (moving from Providence) c. 1857, and eventually built an extensive complex of buildings centered on the junction of Newman and Greenwood Avenues with North Broadway. Its main section originally extended eastward from this junction to a pond which has since been filled in and built over with apartments.
The surviving parcel, roughly 8.5 acres (3.4 ha), includes a few wood-frame buildings which may date to the 1857 move and a large three-story brick warehouse built in 1895. A wood-frame office building stands across North Broadway from the main complex, and a series of duplexes built as worker housing line North Broadway.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The Rumford Chemical Works are now home to several businesses including Avenue N American Kitchen, the Punch Kettlebell Gym and the Seven Stars Bakery as well as rental apartments and lofts.
Rumford Chemical Works was founded by Eben Horsford, who was the Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts at Harvard, and George F. Wilson in 1854 in Seekonk, Massachusetts part of which in 1862 became East Providence, Rhode Island. The Rumford Chemical Works was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1859. Their most successful product was Rumford baking powder. Hulman & Company acquired the Rumford Chemical Works in 1950 and still makes Rumford baking powder, now at its facility in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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