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Location DB > United States > New York > Amsterdam > Mohasco Complex > 'Dukes/Bizzy > Amsterdam.Mahasco.6.11.04 002.jpg 1 / 23   Amsterdam.Mahasco.6.11.04 002.jpg Description The Mahasco powerplant/ mill. Matc's friend know from when this dates (late 1800's ) but noone seems to know what it's purpose is. It's coal fired, has a rail spur which delivers the coal, but the whole place is a massive boiler. Controls Return to Main Location Page Return to Gallery Overview Edit this Gallery Edit this Picture Subscribe this Picture Comments Posted by fiddlerjones 6/22/2004 4:40 AM | remove   Actually, this building was the powerhouse for the Mahasco complex which was one of the many factories that manufactured rugs. Hence, Amsterdam's title: 'The Rug City'. Posted by Shashinshi 9/15/2007 1:29 PM | remove   indeed rugs it was. I looked it up in one of those like local city historic books my grandfather loves. Posted by handyman756 6/14/2015 8:50 PM | remove   The name is MOHASCO - a contraction of Mohawk - Alexander Smith - Company. This plant was originally the McCleary, Wallin, and Crouse Carpet Mills. In 1920 after McCleary's death they merged with the Shuttleworth Brothers Carpet Mills, in the East End of Amsterdam, to form Mohawk Carpets. A later merger with Alexander-Smith Company in NYC produced MOHASCO. Manufacturing here moved out in the 1950's in favor of down South with lower cost labor and new tufted carpet manufacturing technology requiring large open floor space not suited to these old mill building designs, Corporate and design offices were here into the 1980's. Mohawk is still a major player in the floor covering industry. Most of this complex was destroyed by a huge arson fire for insurance in the 1980's; other buildings were razed since. Only the power plant and shipping/receiving warehouse (yellowish building in this series) remain. If you'd like to add a comment, please login or register. All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 312 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 738447796 pages have been generated.