Piedmont Buggy Factory

Piedmont Buggy Factory
Piedmont Buggy Factory, September 2012
Location514 Miller St., Monroe, North Carolina
Coordinates34°59′20″N 80°32′46″W / 34.98889°N 80.54611°W / 34.98889; -80.54611
Area2.4 acres (0.97 ha)
Built1910 (1910)
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.04000569[1]
Added to NRHPJune 2, 2004

Piedmont Buggy Factory, also known as Bearskin Cotton Mills and Monroe Cotton Mills, is a historic building located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It was built in 1910, and is a three-story, rectangular brick building with a shallow pitched gable roof. The brick is in six distinct shades of red. Also on the property are the contributing late-1910s one-story brick boiler house and a steel water tower (c. 1910). Originally built as a buggy factory, in the late 1910s the factory was converted to textile production and renamed the Bearskin Cotton Mills. The facility remained in operation through 1956.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ J. Daniel Pezzoni (December 2003). "Piedmont Buggy Factory" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.