NTSI is now located in downtown Lowell in the Historic Boott Mills.
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Boott Mill History:
The Boott
Cotton Mills, constructed from 1835-c. 1910, was one of many cotton textile mill
complexes established in the growing city of Lowell, Massachusetts. It
represents one of the oldest surviving textile mill complexes in the United
States. Boott Cotton Mills' buildings were products of the earliest large-scale
industrial planning project in America and were developed by the same
industrialists who founded the city of Lowell. Among the planners was Kirk
Boott, first agent of the initial textile company in Lowell, for whom the Boott
Mills are named.
The Boott millyard is regarded as one of the most architecturally significant millyards in the United States. The four mills and the counting house were constructed in the 1830s. They survive as part of an interconnected series of mill buildings built over a 75-year period. The Boott millyard illustrates the development of a single textile company in the early years of America's Industrial Revolution and how it paralleled the rise and decline of the Northern textile industry.