{"nrhp_refnum":"84000301","name":"Altamahaw Mill Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SR 1002 and SR 1567","address_restricted":false,"city":"Altamahaw","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.18396946900003,"lon":-79.50713967399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-11-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne brick office building on a small hill in Altamahaw, Alamance County, North Carolina, built about 1890 as the office for the Altamahaw cotton mill, later part of Glen Raven Mills.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the office as a well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century industrial architecture in piedmont North Carolina. Its high-style design reflects the growing status of the textile industry and the move of mill management into a separate building. It is also tied to the Gant and Holt families, prominent in Alamance County textile development.","narrative":"Built about 1890 on a knoll overlooking the Altamahaw cotton mill, this two-and-a-half-story brick office is a Queen Anne building with a high stuccoed base, a bell-cast roof, and a band of brown and cream bricks that spells out \"OFFICE\" on the north side. Inside, it has plaster walls, maple floors, tiled fireplaces and a pine staircase. When new, it was among the most modern buildings in the county, with running water, gas fixtures and an early telephone. The mill was founded in 1880-81 by John Q. Gant, Sr. and Berry Davidson, with Banks and Lawrence Holt becoming partners in 1883. The office reflects how growing textile businesses moved their record-keeping out of the factory into separate buildings. It served as the mill office for more than seventy years, then held company records, and has been vacant since 1976. Only the front entrance stairs and the lighting were changed, leaving the building well preserved.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Vacant since 1976 but well maintained by the owning family; the form lists its status as unoccupied/vacant and its condition as good.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.777369-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/7188/47718866/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84000301.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000301/6f34f7ffe5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000301/6f34f7ffe5-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altamahaw_Mill_Office.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altamahaw_Mill_Office.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718866","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamahaw_Mill_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17511425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/altamahaw-mill-office-84000301/"}