{"nrhp_refnum":"08001412","name":"McAdenville Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"100-413 Main St., Elm and Poplar Sts., and cross sts. from I-85 to S. Fork of Catawba River","address_restricted":false,"city":"McAdenville","county":"Gaston County","state":"NC","lat":35.260974379500055,"lon":-81.08275444163048,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-02-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 85-acre historic district in McAdenville, eastern Gaston County, North Carolina, on the west side of the South Fork of the Catawba River. It is a company-owned cotton mill village begun in the early 1880s around McAden Mills.","why_significant":"The district is one of the last company-owned mill villages in the region. It is distinguished by fifteen surviving 1880s two-story brick mill houses, unusual in a South where most mill houses were frame. It also keeps its mill remnants, a small commercial core, and residential areas for mill management and later neighborhoods. The full Section 8 statement is not included in the provided text.","narrative":"McAdenville is a textile mill village in eastern Gaston County, North Carolina, laid out in the early 1880s around McAden Mills, a cotton mill chartered in 1881. The district covers about 85 acres along the South Fork of the Catawba River, organized along Main Street. Its best-known feature is a group of fifteen two-story, gable-fronted brick mill houses from the 1880s, mostly duplexes, an uncommon form in a region where mill housing was usually frame. Mill No. 3 (1906-07) survives intact, while only remnants of the first two mills remain. Other parts of the village include a small commercial block along Main Street, churches, houses built for mill owners and managers, frame mill cottages, and a privately owned residential area toward Interstate 85. Of 156 resources, 102 are contributing. Most of the district is still owned by the mill company, which helps explain how well the village has kept its character as one of the region's last company-owned mill towns.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian, Italianate, Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Most of the district is owned by the mill interests, Pharr Yarns Inc. Mill No. 3 survives in its entirety, while only remnants of Mills No. 1 and 2 remain. Houses are in residential use, and the 100 block of Main Street has commercial use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.345071-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/15/7204/47720415/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/08001412.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001412/23497e6a24-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08001412/23497e6a24-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PreferredAperture","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McAdenville_121214-12.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">PreferredAperture</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:McAdenville_121214-12.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAdenville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gaston-county/mcadenville-historic-district-08001412/"}