{"nrhp_refnum":"01000374","name":"Carolina School Supply Company Building (Former)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1023 W. Morehead St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.22815536400003,"lon":-80.86023327599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-04-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick warehouse built in 1927 at 1023 West Morehead Street on the south side of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, formerly used by the Carolina School Supply Company to store and distribute school furniture and supplies. It has a utilitarian brick-veneer form with a Gothic Revival entrance and later additions to the rear.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the warehouse is significant under Criterion A for commerce, as a storage and wholesale distribution building tied to Charlotte's growth as a regional distribution center and to the West Morehead Street industrial corridor. It is also argued to be significant under Criterion C for architecture, as a well-preserved example of heavy mill construction with steel interior columns and restrained Gothic Revival detailing.","narrative":"Built in 1927 at 1023 West Morehead Street, south of downtown Charlotte, this three-story brick warehouse was constructed for the Carolina School Supply Company, which sold school furniture and supplies to the expanding public school systems of North Carolina. It was one of the first buildings on the West Morehead Street industrial corridor, which developed after the street was extended west across Irwin Creek to meet Wilkinson Boulevard, the state's first four-lane highway. The site offered both rail access from the Piedmont and Northern line and truck loading space. The building is regarded as one of the best-preserved early twentieth-century warehouses in Charlotte. It uses heavy mill construction with slender steel interior columns, which opened the floors to more storage, and it has a restrained Gothic Revival entrance. Its steel sash windows largely survive. Later additions include a 1950s concrete block storage building and a late 1950s brick rear addition.","period_of_significance":"1927-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Stylized Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitation underway at the time of the nomination; later occupied by a furniture distributor from 1972 until the late 1990s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.927361-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/7213/47721350/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01000374.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000374/67fb2b8c3a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000374/67fb2b8c3a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bagatar","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1023_W._Morehead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bagatar</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1023_W._Morehead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721350","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_School_Supply_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460852"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/carolina-school-supply-company-building-former-01000374/"}