The Button Building, 1910
Projecting toward Islington Street from the front of #6a, the two-story button building (#6) was also built in 1910. The rectangular structure continues the exact paneled brick and Flemish stretcher bond construction of the main block, with slightly larger window openings. On the façade, nine windows are arranged in recessed panels, three bays wide, between flat piers, rising to a corbelled cornice. The side elevations are now separated from adjacent sections by narrow courtyards, have nine panels, two windows wide. The roof is flat and retains a single saw-tooth clerestory. Window openings contain 6/6 replacement metal windows, granite sills and two-course segmental arches. The central front entrance is not original.
From the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, Individual Inventory Form, for the Morley Button Factory.
The Shipping Building and Office, 1911
Extending forward and toward Frenchman’s Lane, the 1911 shipping building (#7a – Photos 1, 31, 32) is a single story, 25′ x 55′ brick structure joined to the 1911 office (#7 – Photos 1, 32) which is in the very front corner of the building. Both are one-story structures, constructed in the established Flemish stretcher bond pattern. Walls are flat and rise to a corbelled cornice and flat roof. The office and the front entry to the factory are distinguished by the wider and more elaborate, corbelled cornice accentuated by corbelled brackets. The façade features a crenellated parapet, matching the new top level of the main tower. Below is a bay window with decorative brick panel, formed by staggered rows of headers, above its copper roof. Window openings of both structures contain 1/1 replacement metal sash with snap-in muntins. Granite keystones in the office (#7) windows articulate its hierarchy in the complex. The segmental arches also differ: they are constructed in a vertical Flemish bond, and continue as a horizontal band around the perimeter of the building, between window openings. The shipping room (#7a) historically had a saw-tooth roof for lighting the upper story. Where a second shipping room previously stood (Insurance plan ca. 1920), an L-shaped courtyard now separates the 1911 shipping room and office from the button building (#6) on the south.
From the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources, Individual Inventory Form, for the Morley Button Factory.
