
Named for the street, this factory had no business connection with Conant-Coats; nor did it continue that company's conservative approach to mill construction. By contrast, the Conant Street Mill is pier-and-spandrel brick construction pared to its near structural limit. Minimal projecting round-cornered piers (even dissolved at their tops by beveling into the wall below the cornice) oppose skimpy inset spandrel horizontals designed to