{"nrhp_refnum":"12001087","name":"Hollar Hosiery Mills-Knit Sox Knitting Mills","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"883 Highland Ave., SE.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hickory","county":"Catawba County","state":"NC","lat":35.7353,"lon":-81.3256,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2012-12-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former hosiery knitting complex on the east side of Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina, made up of a c. 1930 brick mill, a c. 1940 brick yarn mill, and a mid-1960s hyphen connecting them. The c. 1930 mill was built for Hollar Hosiery Mills and the c. 1940 yarn mill for Knit-Sox Knitting Mills.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex clearly illustrates the development of Hickory's hosiery industry in the first half of the twentieth century, when hosiery production became a major part of the city's manufacturing base. It is described as one of the most intact hosiery mills in Hickory and is considered locally significant under Criterion A for industry.","narrative":"Built around 1930 for Hollar Hosiery Mills and expanded around 1940 by Knit-Sox Knitting Mills, this complex in the Highland industrial area of Hickory is made up of two brick mill buildings joined by a mid-1960s hyphen. The earlier mill has a seven-bay Commercial Style front with stepped parapets, concrete corner blocks and a concrete nameplate reading Hollar Hosiery Mills. Its interior retains an open production room with riveted metal roof trusses. The yarn mill to the east has steel bowstring trusses and a large open upper floor. The property is significant for its link to hosiery manufacturing, which employed roughly half of Hickory's industrial workforce by the late 1930s. Knit-Sox produced women's and children's socks distributed nationally, with a sales office in New York City. The mill closed in 1968 and the property has been vacant since the early 1990s.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1930-1962","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The property has been vacant since the early 1990s.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.647732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/7195/47719523/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12001087.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001087/6f237b525e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001087/6f237b525e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollar_Hosiery_Mills.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollar_Hosiery_Mills.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollar_Hosiery_Mills-Knit_Sox_Knitting_Mills","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18169252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/catawba-county/hollar-hosiery-mills-knit-sox-knitting-mills-12001087/"}