Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill Explained

Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill
Location:310 Main Avenue Way SE (Formerly 56 Third Street SE) Hickory, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.7336°N -81.3331°W
Built:-1934
Architect:Biberstein, Bowles, Meachem & Reed
Architecture:Moderne
Added:August 8, 2007
Refnum:06001137

The Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill is a historic hosiery mill located in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina.

History

It was built in two stages between 1930 and 1934, and is a two-story, rectangular, nine-by-twelve bay brick building. It features a Moderne-Style 2 1/2-story stair tower. The mill remained in operation until 1957, after which the building was used as a warehouse for a number of years.[1]

Listed and sold

The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, but remained vacant until 2014, when the property was sold to Transportation Insight, a global multi-modal logistics company.

Rehabilitated

The building underwent a significant rehabilitation between 2014 and 2015 to become the headquarters and flagship building for Transportation Insight's corporate campus.[2]

Best Historic Rehabilitation award

The property was designated a local historic landmark by the City of Hickory in 2016 and Transportation Insight received the 2016 North Carolina Main Street Award of Merit for Best Historic Rehabilitation for its work to save and rehabilitate the mill building.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: April Montgomery. Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 2006. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.
  2. Web site: Transportation Insight Announces New Downtown Hickory Corporate Campus Transportation Insight . www.transportationinsight.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160821060210/http://www.transportationinsight.com/news/press/2014/04/transportation-insight-announces-development-downtown-hickory-corporate-campus/ . 2016-08-21.
  3. Web site: Transportation Insight Receives Award for Revitalization Project Transportation Insight . www.transportationinsight.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170422055046/https://www.transportationinsight.com/news/press/2017/03/transportation-insight-receives-award-revitalization-project/ . 2017-04-22.