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  "slug": "putnam-workers-houses-school",
  "title": "Putnam: mill families, homes and a modern school",
  "towns": [
    "Putnam"
  ],
  "counties": [
    "Windham"
  ],
  "dateRange": "c. 1847–1986",
  "topic": "Industry & working life",
  "summary": "Three workers’ houses and Israel Putnam School show how a textile city housed families and invested in public education.",
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    {
      "heading": "A textile city beyond the factory walls",
      "text": "Putnam’s manufacturing history extends into its streets of housing and its school buildings. The Putnam Manufacturing Company was an integrated cotton-textile business active from 1865 to 1925, producing sheetings and later lawns and sateens. At its height it employed about 250 people. The HABS account places it among several firms that drew power from the Quinebaug River and employed many French Canadian immigrants. Their combined activity transformed the community during the nineteenth century. This collection approaches that change through places where people lived and learned, alongside the more familiar history of production.",
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        "ct0387"
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    {
      "heading": "Reading three neighboring houses",
      "text": "The houses at 305, 313 and 317 Church Street represent two periods of construction. The smaller house at 305 was probably built around 1847 and retains modest Greek Revival details associated with that period. The other two, dating approximately to 1865, are plainer framed buildings. Repeated entrances, clapboard siding and broadly symmetrical fronts mark them as recognizable examples of New England mill housing. William Breadheft’s June 1985 photographs move from the group’s relationship along the street to windows, doorways, rooms and stairs. These details offer evidence about building form without supplying a complete account of the families who occupied each unit.",
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    {
      "heading": "The school as a public commitment",
      "text": "Israel Putnam School was completed in 1902 to replace a crowded wooden predecessor. Architects J. Chandler Fowler and Edward I. Wilson gave the brick building limestone detailing and an arcaded entrance, while its plan emphasized spacious classrooms, broad corridors, light and ventilation. Enclosed steel stairways reflected concern about fire safety. A two-story wing was added in 1922 as the community’s needs grew. The original survey treats the building as both an educational facility and a visible expression of civic ambition. Its classrooms and entrances belong in the same local history as the mill tenements.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0390"
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    },
    {
      "heading": "Photographs before another change of use",
      "text": "The school ceased operating as a school around 1980. Wayne Fleming photographed it in March 1985, and the federal account records rehabilitation for senior housing in 1986. The school and housing surveys therefore preserve buildings at moments of reassessment, long after their initial construction. Looking across the two sets reveals differences in scale, ornament and access: a prominent public entrance served a different purpose from several domestic front doors. The images invite comparison while leaving residents’ individual experiences to other records such as directories, school documents and family collections.",
      "source_ids": [
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    {
      "date": "c. 1847",
      "event": "The house at 305 Church Street is probably constructed.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0412"
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    },
    {
      "date": "c. 1865",
      "event": "The other documented workers’ houses are built around the start of Putnam Manufacturing’s operation.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0387"
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    },
    {
      "date": "1902",
      "event": "Israel Putnam School is completed.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0390"
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    },
    {
      "date": "1922",
      "event": "A two-story school wing is added.",
      "source_ids": [
        "ct0390"
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    },
    {
      "date": "1985",
      "event": "HABS photographers document the houses and school.",
      "source_ids": [
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        "ct0412"
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    },
    {
      "date": "1986",
      "event": "The school is rehabilitated for senior housing.",
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        "ct0390"
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      "title": "Library of Congress: Putnam Manufacturing Company Workers' Houses, 305 Church Street (House), Putnam, Windham County, CT",
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    {
      "id": "ct0413",
      "title": "Library of Congress: Putnam Manufacturing Company Workers' Houses, 313 Church Street (House), Putnam, Windham County, CT",
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      "title": "Library of Congress: Putnam Manufacturing Company Workers' Houses, 317 Church Street (House), Putnam, Windham County, CT",
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    {
      "id": "ct0390",
      "title": "Library of Congress: Israel Putnam School, School & Oak Streets, Putnam, Windham County, CT",
      "url": "https://www.loc.gov/item/ct0390/"
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    {
      "id": "ct-towns-counties",
      "title": "Connecticut State Library: CT Towns & Counties",
      "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/csl/research/ct-towns-counties"
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