The River Spinning Company was incorporated in 1891 by Frank Sayles, who owned a number of textile mills in Rhode Island. The building was designed by C. R. Makepeace Company and was completed in 1894. Theophilus Guerin, whose family owned a successful textile enterprise in Belgium that would later expand to Woonsocket, traveled to Rhode Island to set up machinery for the River Spinning Company. The new machineary would manufacture woolen and merino yarns based on the French System.
One year after the building had been completed the building was nearly destroyed by fire.
<i>Images courtesy of the Woonsocket Historical Society</i>
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Era 2: 1850-1899