{"nrhp_refnum":"84002324","name":"Revolution Cotton Mills","other_names":["Revolution Division,Cone Mills"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Southern RR, N. Buffalo Creek, Yanceyville and 9th Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Greensboro","county":"Guilford County","state":"NC","lat":36.09911422150006,"lon":-79.77784982318158,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large textile mill complex of over one million square feet in the Cone Village section of northeast Greensboro, North Carolina, with buildings dating from 1900 to the mid twentieth century. It is bounded by Yanceyville Street, North Buffalo Creek, the Southern Railroad tracks and Ninth Street.","why_significant":"The complex is a typical example of standard, fire-resistant \"slow-burning\" Southern textile mill construction, designed for safety and efficiency rather than beauty. Revolution produced the first canton flannel in the South in 1900 and was among the largest capitalized corporations in Guilford County. It grew through three major building campaigns in 1900, 1904 and about 1915.","narrative":"Revolution Cotton Mills is a sprawling brick textile complex in northeast Greensboro, covering more than a million square feet between Yanceyville Street, Ninth Street, the Southern Railroad and North Buffalo Creek. The mill opened in September 1900 and produced the first canton flannel made in the South. It then doubled in size in 1904 and again around 1915, with later additions including a bleachery, storage buildings, a machine shop and a tall yellow brick stack spelling \"Revolution.\" The buildings follow the standard mill construction promoted by insurers: brick walls, heavy timber posts, monitor roofs, fire walls and separate cotton warehouses. Much of the complex was brick veneered in the 1960s when air conditioning was installed. At its start the company had the highest stock value of any Guilford County corporation listed in 1902. Operations ended in February 1982, and the owners planned to convert the buildings to apartments and offices following rehabilitation guidelines.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Standard mill construction (slow-burning textile mill design)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Industrial operations ceased in February 1982; the owners planned to convert the buildings to apartments and offices. The form checks the condition as excellent through deteriorated, and the status as unoccupied.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.399478-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7206/47720624/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002324.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002324/8281b959a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002324/8281b959a2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rhpotter","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Revolution_Cotton_Mills_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rhpotter</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:Revolution_Cotton_Mills_(Greensboro,_North_Carolina)_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720624","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_Cotton_Mills","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987783"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/guilford-county/revolution-cotton-mills-84002324/"}