{"nrhp_refnum":"09000288","name":"Margrace Mill Village Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"101-117, 102-120 Cloninger St., 101-113, 102-116, 200 Fulton Dr., 145 Ark St., 101-107, 102-114 Water Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kings Mountain","county":"Cleveland County","state":"NC","lat":35.22424536400007,"lon":-81.36638139499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential mill village on the southwest edge of Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, built in 1919-1920 by the Neisler family textile company for workers at the Margrace and Patricia mills.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the village is a rare, highly intact example of an industrial community, with its repetitive streetscape of four mill house types, clubhouse and company store largely preserved. It documents the Neisler family's textile enterprise and its role in Kings Mountain's growth in the 1920s. The houses were sold mostly to residents in 1956, ending the company village era.","narrative":"Margrace Mill Village is a residential district at the southwest edge of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, built in 1919-1920 by the Neisler family textile company to house workers at the nearby Margrace and Patricia mills. Its houses line three streets off Margrace Road. Forty-six one-story frame mill houses come in four types, differing by room count and roof form, with a stone clubhouse and a two-story brick company store completing the principal buildings. The Neislers sold the houses, mostly to residents, in 1956. Since then, siding and windows have been replaced on many homes, yet the footprints and the repetitive streetscape remain largely unchanged, and only a few houses have been lost or heavily altered. Mature oaks planted after 1941 shade the streets. The mills drew workers during Kings Mountain's growth in the 1920s and made bedspreads and napkins sold nationally. Most of the mill complex has since been demolished, which makes the surviving village an uncommon record of the community.","period_of_significance":"1919-1956","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: one-story mill house; Bungalow/Craftsman; Commercial Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly single-family dwellings in current use; the former mill complex nearby has largely been demolished; dairy farm buildings stand vacant and deteriorating.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.362626-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/60/7196/47719660/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/09000288.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000288/27fd662c39-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000288/27fd662c39-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:114_Fulton_Drive,_Kings_Mountain,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</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:114_Fulton_Drive,_Kings_Mountain,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719660","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrace_Mill_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18154101"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/cleveland-county/margrace-mill-village-historic-district-09000288/"}