NEB&W Guide to Cohoes, NY - Star Woolen Mill

Last Update: 2009-08-15

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• The original company here was a machine works, Cohoes Machine Shop & Iron Foundry.
  • [Engraving c. 1879 showing the complex in color.]
  • [Engraving c. 1879 of the view from trackside.]

• Looking northeast from the corner of the Harmony Mills freight house, with Star Woolen Mills across and beyond. The company was established in 1905 in Cohoes, in the former machine works. They handled about 3,000 tons of rags, cotton, wool and rayon waste, garneted stocks, and reclaimed fibers. By the time of this photo, c. 1931, the tower had been removed from the mill. (This is a close-up of a section of a photo shown below.)
  • [Photo, from our NEB&W D&H Collection.]

• More views of Star Woolen.
  • [Prototype view c. 1914 looking north. From the NEB&W D&H Collection. Star Woolen Mills (with a tower that has since been removed) is in the background on the right.]
  • [Valuation photo photocopy with Star Woolen in the background.]
  • [Photo, c. 1931, from our NEB&W D&H Collection.]
  • [Photo, c. 1970's.]
  • [Photo, c. 2002.]
  • [Photo, c. 2002.]
  • [Photo, c. 2002.]
  • [On the layout, Oct. 2004. Will Gill is kitbashing a Walthers factory as a stand-in for this building.]
  • [Star Woolen Mills kitbash, Nov. 2004.]
  • [Another model view.]
  • [Another model view, a few weeks later. Will has painted the foundation and added most of the windows. A triangular section of brick was added for a gable at each end.]
  • [Model view as of Jan. '05.]
  • [Model view from the other end.]
  • [Model view, Sept. '06, with a little cyber-help to "plant" it. (Will's father, Bill, finished up some of the detailing.)]

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