Wood from Massachusetts Mills Recycled into Flooring
The Massachusetts Cotton Mills Picker building in Lowell, MA, is now one of the city’s final mill structures to be renovated for alternate use. The brick walls will soon contain 70 new apartment units for moderate and low-income families. During construction, demolition contractors carefully salvaged timbers to be re-sawn by Cambridge, MA, based reclaimed lumber company Longleaf Lumber.
The massive Massachusetts Mills buildings were constructed between 1839 and 1911. The Picker House on the complex was built in stages on new land created with river fill: Section nine in 1892, Section 10 in 1904 and Section 11 in 1911. Virgin Heart Pine timber was shipped from the South for much of the interior structural members.