{"nrhp_refnum":"05001585","name":"Lambert's Point Knitting Mill (122-0934)","other_names":["The Knitting Mill","Old Dominion Paper Company"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"808 W. 44th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Norfolk (Independent City)","county":"Norfolk","state":"VA","lat":36.88648188700006,"lon":-76.29536049299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick mill building with a four-story tower at 808 West 44th Street in Norfolk, Virginia, built around 1895 as the Lambert's Point Knitting Mill and later altered and added to, notably in 1950.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the sole survivor of at least twenty-three mill facilities listed in early twentieth-century Norfolk city directories, illustrating the city's manufacturing prosperity (Criterion A). It also retains the layout, heavy timber structure and materials of a turn-of-the-century mill, including a fire-protection water tower (Criterion C).","narrative":"Built around 1895 at 808 West 44th Street in Norfolk, Lambert's Point Knitting Mill is a masonry industrial building with a two-story main block and a tall four-story brick tower. Brick bearing walls and heavy timber posts and beams created open floors suited to machinery, and large windows supplied light and ventilation. The tower held a 5,500 gallon water tank feeding a sprinkler system, and its decorative brickwork marked the importance of the plant. An 1898 insurance map shows carding, knitting, spinning and seaming machinery, steam heat, electric lights and a rail spur. Later occupants included a wood products company, a cotton processor, a storage warehouse and the Old Dominion Paper Company, which clad the exterior in concrete stucco and glass block in 1950 while leaving the interior largely unchanged. The mill was listed because it is the only survivor of at least twenty-three mill facilities recorded in early twentieth-century city directories, and because it preserves the architecture of a late nineteenth-century mill.","period_of_significance":"1895-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function listed as work in progress; the form notes water damage to some wood roof structures and a deteriorated concrete loading dock.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.437767-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/1/6822/41682201/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001585.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001585/84be39b861-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001585/84be39b861-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lambert%27s_Point_Knitting_Mill.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lambert%27s_Point_Knitting_Mill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682201","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%27s_Point_Knitting_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16893946"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/norfolk/lamberts-point-knitting-mill-122-0934-05001585/"}