Vamp Building

Lynn, United States

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The Vamp Building is an eight-story Romanesque Revival brick factory in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts, designed by local architect Henry Warren Rogers and completed in 1903–1907. Named for its distinctive V-shaped "flatiron" footprint—resembling the vamp of a shoe—the structure occupied an entire city block bounded by Washington, Union, and Liberty Square. Originally built as the Lynn Realty Company Building #4, it housed numerous shoe-manufacturing businesses and was, at the time of construction, the largest brick building of its kind in the world. A major fire in November 1981 destroyed only its top floor, with the building's robust construction and sprinkler system preventing wider devastation. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it remains one of three Rogers-designed buildings on the register in Lynn.