Renfro Mill Explained

Renfro Mill
Location:Jct. of Willow and Oak Sts.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Coordinates:36.5014°N -80.61°W
Built:c., 1946-1947
Architecture:Late Victorian
Added:October 12, 2000
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:00001208

Renfro Mill, also known as R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House, is a historic industrial building located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. The original section was built as a tobacco barn about 1893. The largest addition was built in 1946–1947. It is a one- to 4 1/2-story, brick, concrete, steel, wood, and granite industrial building encompassing 100,000 square feet of space. It was originally built to house a tobacco leaf house, and after 1921 the Renfro company, a sock manufacturer. The mill closed in 1997.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Laura A. W. Phillips. Renfro Mill. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . November 1999 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-05-01.