{"nrhp_refnum":"03000343","name":"Sykes, Joseph, Brothers Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1445 S. Mint St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.21931862200006,"lon":-80.86024846999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-05-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick factory with a front office section, built in 1926 at 1445 South Mint Street in the industrial area south of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. Lockwood, Greene and Company designed it for the British firm Joseph Sykes Brothers Company.","why_significant":"The building is significant under Criterion A for industry. It illustrates how Charlotte became the leading manufacturing and distribution center of the Carolinas, drawing suppliers to the textile industry. It is one of only six factories surviving from the early twentieth-century South Mint Street industrial district and one of the best preserved factories in the city.","narrative":"Built in 1926 at the corner of South Mint Street and West Summit Avenue, this one-story brick factory housed the first U.S. plant of the Joseph Sykes Brothers Company, an English maker of steel wire card clothing, which is machinery used to align cotton fiber for spinning. Lockwood, Greene and Company designed it, and Blythe and Isenhour built it. A small front office with restrained Classical detailing, including brick pilasters, quoins and a concrete pedimented entrance, sits ahead of a larger rear machine shop. Its steel frame could have carried two more stories. The building matters as evidence of Charlotte's rise as a manufacturing and distribution center serving the Piedmont textile industry. It is one of only six factories left from the South Mint Street industrial district and one of the best preserved in the city. The company occupied it until about 1970, and a certified rehabilitation has kept its original windows, doors and much of its interior character. Its period of significance runs from 1926 to 1952.","period_of_significance":"1926-1952","architect_builder":"Lockwood, Greene and Company, engineers; Blythe and Isenhour, builders","architectural_style":"Early Twentieth Century Revivals/Classical Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Recently underwent a certified rehabilitation and retains its architectural integrity; current function listed as work in progress.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.675378-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7213/47721366/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/03000343.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000343/d589d90d42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000343/d589d90d42-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Big Wang","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Sykes_Brothers_Company_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Wang</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Sykes_Brothers_Company_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721366","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sykes_Brothers_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/sykes-joseph-brothers-company-building-03000343/"}