Erlanger Mill Village Historic District Explained

Erlanger Mill Village Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Roughly bounded by Winston Rd., Short, 7th, Hames, Second Rainbow, Park Circle, & Olympia Sts., Lexington, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.8397°N -80.2556°W
Architect:Draper, Earle Sumner
Architecture:Bungalow/craftsman, Gothic Revival
Added:January 9, 2008
Refnum:07001371

Erlanger Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, USA. The district encompasses 282 contributing buildings and 7 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Lexington. The mill village dwellings were built between about 1916 and 1929 and include notable examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The dwellings were constructed by the Erlanger Mill Company as worker's housing and in a subdivision designed by noted landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper (1893–1994). The mill itself is a complex of one- and two-story mill buildings constructed from 1913 through the 1960s. Also located in the district are the Erlanger Baptist Church (1936) and Erlanger Graded School (c. 1920).[1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

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  1. Web site: Heather Fearnbach. Erlanger Mill Village Historic District. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . February 2007 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.