page_title: D. H. & A. B. Tower
section_title: Paper and textile mills
hierarchical_section_title: D. H. & A. B. Tower / Selected works / Paper and textile mills
caption_attribution_description: English: The front facade of the Albion Paper Mill, of Holyoke, Massachusetts designed by David H. Tower in 1869.
context_page_description: Doing business as D. H. & A. B. Tower, brothers David Horatio Tower and Ashley Bemis Tower were internationally known American architects, civil and mechanical engineers based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, who designed mills and factories in the United States from Maine to California as well as abroad, including in Canada, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, the United Kingdom, India, China, Japan, and Australia. By the time of its dissolution, the firm was described by one contemporary account as "the largest firm of paper mill architects in the country at that time"; its files reportedly contained more than 8,000 architectural plans for sites, mill machinery, and waterpower improvements.
  In a treatise on his own work in mill engineering, Joseph Wallace, former partner to Ashley B. Tower, lauded their work posthumously saying "the history of paper mill engineering is largely the story of the work of the 'Towers of Holyoke,' followed by the younger generation of engineers trained in the Tower offices." Their most famous works include Kimberly Clark's earliest pulp plants in Kimberly, Wisconsin for which Ashley B. Tower furnished designs, and David H.
context_section_description: Springfield Paper Company Mill, Rainbow, Connecticut (1864), D. H. Tower
  Albion Paper Mill, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1869, demolished 2018), D. H. Tower
  Whiting Paper Company Mill No. 2, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1869)
  Orono Pulp & Paper Mill, Orono, Maine (c. 1872) 
  C. H. Dexter & Sons, Windsor Locks, Connecticut (1874), D. H. Tower
  Delaney & Munson Manufacturing Co., Unionville, Connecticut (1874)
  Chemical Paper Company Mill, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1880), now main manufacturing plant of the Hazen Paper Company
  Fairchild Paper Company Mill, Pepperell, Massachusetts (1880)
  Southworth Mittineague Mill, West Springfield, Massachusetts (1880, demolished)
  Winona Paper Mill, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1880, demolished c. 2014)
  Nonotuck Paper Mill, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1881, demolished c. 2011)
  Hampden Glazed Paper and Card Company, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1882), still in operation under original business
  George R. Dickinson Mill, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1882)
  A.S. Newcomb & Co. Mill, High Falls, New York (1883)
  Glens Falls Paper Company, Glens Falls, New York (1884), D. H. Tower; now site of Finch Paper
  Ticonderoga Paper and Pulp Mills, Ticonderoga, New York (c. 1884)
  Melchert & Cia - Fábrica de Papel de Salto, Salto, São Paulo, Brazil (1887), the first industrial paper mill in South America
  Parsons Paper Mill No. 2, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1888, demolished 2016)
  Hollywood Mill, Richmond, Virginia (1888)
  Denver Paper Mills Company, Denver, Colorado (c. 1890), manufacturing facilities constructed for James H. Platt Jr.
  Kimberly-Clark Mills, Appleton, Wisconsin (1890)
  Centralia Pulp Mill, Centralia, Wisconsin (1891), A. B. Tower and N. M. Edwards
  Shattuck and Babcock Paper Mill, De Pere, Wisconsin (1892)
  Norman Paper Company Mill, Holyoke, Massachusetts (1892)
  Montague Paper Company, Turners Falls, Massachusetts (1896) now known as Southworth Turners Falls Mill
  William Cole Paper Mill, Putney, Vermont (c. 1897, rebuilt on site of Cole's previous mill), Joseph Wallace's first job, supervised by A. B. Tower
  Fletcher Paper Company, Alpena, Michigan (1898)
  James River Falls and Paper Mills, Richmond, Virginia (1899)
  Oxford Paper Mills, Rumford, Maine (c. 1900), A. B. Tower; Tower & Wallace
  Ste. Marie Pulp & Paper Co, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, (1900) A. B. Tower; Tower & Wallace
  Rising Paper Mill, Housatonic, Massachusetts (c. 1900, expansion/reorganization)
  Nekonegan Paper Mill, Old Town, Maine
caption: The Albion Paper Mill, designed c. 1869 by David Tower
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