Piedmont Buggy Factory Explained

Piedmont Buggy Factory
Location:514 Miller St., Monroe, North Carolina
Coordinates:34.9889°N -80.5461°W
Architecture:Bungalow/craftsman
Added:June 2, 2004
Refnum:04000569

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 wasconverted to textile production and renamed the Bearskin Cotton Mills. The facility remained in operation through 1956.[1]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: J. Daniel Pezzoni. Piedmont Buggy Factory. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . December 2003 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.