Lockwood, Greene & Co.

Lockwood, a native of Rhode Island, was self-trained in mechanical engineering and had extensive experience managing textile manufacturing and construction operations.

[1] His office remained in Boston until 1875, when he relocated it to Providence, where he established A. D. Lockwood & Company to manage all of his business interests.

Stephen Greene died unexpectedly November 7, 1901, at his home in Newton Center, where he had lived since relocating in 1890.

[c] In 1892 George W. Stevens, former engineer for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire, was hired as general superintendent of construction for southern work.

[3] When Stevens died in 1897,[d] Joseph Emory Sirrene of Greenville, South Carolina, was hired as his replacement the following year.

[1] The first twenty years of Edwin F. Greene's presidency was a period of major growth of the company.

[8] In 1919, after the close of World War I, offices were added at Cleveland, Detroit and Paris, the latter to manage reconstruction work.

[1] In 1918 Frank W. Reynolds, an employee since 1885 and head of the drafting room since the 1890s, encouraged the establishment of an architectural department.

[1] In the 1920s, textile manufacturing revenues declined in New England and elsewhere, leaving the firm in a precarious financial condition.

Edwin F. Green stepped down as president, and Albert L. Scott,[g] chairman of the former engineering subsidiary, succeeded him.

This new organization was then named Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc.[11] Within a month, Lockwood, Greene & Company gave up management of its remaining mills, effective October 1, 1928, leaving the old firm solely a holding company for mill securities.

Facing its own problems, Jones declared bankruptcy in 2003, after which Lockwood Greene was sold to CH2M Hill at a cost of $95.5 million.