{"nrhp_refnum":"01000972","name":"Whittier Mills Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly the jct. of Bolton Rd. and Parrot Ave., approx. 7 mi. NW of central business district of Atlanta","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.81187557600006,"lon":-84.48318233123287,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Industry","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 30-acre mill village and former mill site on the south bank of the Chattahoochee River in the Chattahoochee community, now part of Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. Whittier Cotton Mills established it in 1895.","why_significant":"The district is significant under Criterion A for social history, community planning and development, and industry, as a company-built mill complex and village where the mill company controlled housing, services and welfare. Under Criterion C it is significant for its mill village housing and superintendents' single-family houses. The period of significance runs from the 1895 founding to the last company expansion in 1957.","narrative":"Whittier Mills Historic District is a former cotton mill village on the south bank of the Chattahoochee River, about seven miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. Whittier Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts began building the mill and thirty wood-framed workers' cottages in 1895, and production started in 1896. The company platted the streets, rented out housing, and later added a church, school, settlement house and health facilities. A 1926 expansion with the Silver Lake Company brought 36 more dwellings, designed by the Boston firm Parsons and Wait, and a final subdivision followed in 1957. The mill buildings were demolished in the 1980s, but a brick tower and storehouse walls survive. The remaining resources include one-story duplexes and triplexes, superintendents' houses, a 1942 brick church and a 1948 Art Moderne health center. The district is recognized for its company-planned village, its industrial role in the New South, and its mill housing, which retains good integrity.","period_of_significance":"1895-1957","architect_builder":"Parsons and Wait, Boston, Massachusetts, Architects","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman; Georgian cottage; Queen Anne cottage; Gable-ell cottage","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill buildings were demolished in the 1980s; a three-story brick tower and storehouse walls remain on the mill site. The village houses are now single dwellings, and many have been altered since the 1950s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.559079-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/01000972.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000972/9e89f4754a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000972/9e89f4754a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Thomson200","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whittier_Mill_ruins,_Atlanta,_GA_April_2018_3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomson200</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whittier_Mill_ruins,_Atlanta,_GA_April_2018_3.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208400","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier_Mill_Village","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996876"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/whittier-mills-historic-district-01000972/"}