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.