This is what I know to date.  I have a friend who has a loft in an old
textile mill about a mile from the fire and have not had a chance to speak
with him yet.

It was the Greenhalgh mill complex, built in 1906, in the Darlington area of
Pawtucket R.I.  Demolition workers were in the process of salvaging the old
beams prior to the fire breaking out.  The mill was being razed to make way
for a new Super Stop & Shop.  For those of you who don't have Stop & Shop it
is a huge grocery stop.  The fire destroyed  eight houses and damaged nine
more.

I'm already getting a picture of who was dong the actual work on the demo
and they probably were not from the good old USA.



on 11/15/03 11:16 PM, [log in to unmask] at [log in to unmask] wrote:

In a message dated 11/15/2003 9:55:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
I wonder if the BOCA and CABO codes have a section on fire protection in
high winds?

I don't think that even the International Building Code could do anything
about that.  Sounds like more of a firefighting problem.

Was the loss of this mill, and/or the houses, bad preservation-wise; which
is to say, was there architectural value there?

Ralph