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English: The Naples Mill, 1 Wall Street at Mill Street, Naples, New York, October 2022. A locally listed landmark as well as contributing property to the proposed Central Naples Historic District, the Naples Mill (otherwise known as the Old Red Mill) is one of the oldest extant buildings in the village, dating to about 1850 when local entrepreneurs Simeon C. Lyons and Erastus Hamlin constructed it using salvaged building materials from an earlier mill on the same site. Initially using water power from a no-longer-existing tributary of Naples Creek and later powered successively by steam and electricity, the mill ground grain from local farms until it was decommissioned in 1924. Despite its vernacular architecture lacking anything smacking of high-style detail, the mill still retains a great degree of integrity vis-à-vis its original appearance, as noted in a 1968 letter from architectural consultant Carl Steers Myrus to then-mayor of Naples Charles Swingle, in which the former advocated heartily for the building's preservation and renovation despite its then-dilapidated condition (albeit "not... into the stage of impractical salvagability") and lack of any proposed reuse. In 2015, the mill was belatedly donated by the village government to the Naples Historical Society, which uses it for museum artifact storage.
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Camera location42° 36′ 54.78″ N, 77° 24′ 12.58″ W  Heading=320.60545353367° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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