Built in 1913, Bennington High School is a significant example of an important public building displaying Beaux Arts style architecture. It was built to provide a larger educational facility as the high school population in Bennington increased rapidly between 1900 and 1912, and the original high school, built around 1875, could no longer accommodate the growing number of students. The new location opened in 1914 and served as the high school until the 1960s, when a third high school building was built, and the property became Mount Anthony Middle School. The middle school graduated its last class in 2004, and the building has stood vacant ever since.

Located in the heart of the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City, the 12-story high-rise was originally constructed in 1912 to house the second location of Rabbi Sender Jarmulowsky’s banking business, who would come to be known as the “East Side J.P. Morgan.” Jarmulowsky was born in 1841 in Grajewo, Russia, now a part of Poland. At age three, he was orphaned and raised by the Rabbi of Werblow. Considered a prodigy, Jarmulowsky was sent to an elite Talmudic academy and emerged with rabbinical ordination. He married the daughter of a wealthy Polish merchant and, in 1868, moved his family to Hamburg, Germany, to start a small shipping and banking operation.

Anticipating mass Jewish migration from Eastern Europe as a result of the growing war, he shifted his company’s focus to help German and Eastern European Jews flee to the United States. He used business and familial connections to purchase steamship tickets at a steep discount, passing nearly all the savings on to his customers. After five years, he, too, brought his family to the United States.

The factory at 27 Chandler Street in Buffalo, New York, is a three-story factory building located within the Chandler Street Industrial Buildings Historic District. It was originally built in 1902 for the Jewett Refrigerator Company, which specialized in manufacturing home refrigerators and later in medical and industrial refrigerators. In 1929, the company sold the factory at 27 Chandler Street to the Buffalo Davenport Company, a mattress and upholstery manufacturer. The Buffalo Davenport Company remained in the factory until 1958, when the firm went bankrupt. Following this, the manufacturing space was owned by a number of short-term owners before being converted into warehouse space.

The building is a representative example of the light industry that developed in the Grant-Amherst neighborhood of Buffalo during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of this industry developed near the New York Central Railroad Belt Line, a nineteen-mile loop of railroad tracks that had a significant impact on the development of many neighborhoods in Buffalo’s northern sections.

Built in 3 phases between 1900 and 1915 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Revolution Cotton Mills is an example of the diversification in the Southern textile industry during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was founded as a joint venture of the Cone and Sternberger families, two prominent Jewish families integral to Greensboro’s development.

The mill was fully operational by September 1900 and included 12,000 spindles, 376 looms, employed 350 people, and had 125 company houses – creating the village of Revolution. A 1910 description of the mill noted that “the company houses its employees in neat, modern houses and has supplied the village of Revolution with schools, free kindergarten, healthcare facilities, playgrounds, summer camps, a YMCA, churches, and every possible convenience.”

Revolution Mills’ particular significance lies in the fact that it was reputed to be the first flannel mill in the South, at a time when flannel was an increasingly popular fabric. By the 1930s, Revolution Cotton Mills had become the largest exclusive flannel mill globally, growing to over 1 million square feet and producing over 50 million yards annually.

In 1947, the Revolution Cotton Mills merged with Proximity Manufacturing Company, a secondary business venture founded by the Cone family, to become the Cone Mills Corporation. For approximately thirty years after the merger, the Revolution plant continued to produce flannel goods.

In the late 1970s, however, with new government standards concerning flammability, the company elected to get out of the flannel business. The plant was then converted to corduroy production, with a large export market, but when this market deteriorated, Cone Mills shut down the Revolution plant for good in February 1982. In 2012, Self-Help Ventures bought the mill and embarked on the first phase of redevelopment for the complex. The main campus was complete in 2019, and the Mill House project represents the final piece of the Revolution Mill development.