{"nrhp_refnum":"84002348","name":"Charlotte Supply Company Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"500 S. Mint St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.226520735000065,"lon":-80.85045587899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story (plus basement) brick commercial and warehouse building at 500 South Mint Street in Charlotte's Third Ward, North Carolina, built 1924-1925 for the Charlotte Supply Company and designed by Lockwood, Greene & Company Engineers.","why_significant":"The building is tied to the Charlotte Supply Company, which supplied machinery, parts and goods to the Carolinas textile industry from 1889 to 1975. It is also linked to company presidents Henry C. Clark and his son Albert Barton Clark. The form also calls it an unusually handsome commercial building with symmetrical elevations and balanced proportions that has long been a landmark in the Third Ward.","narrative":"Rising four stories above a basement at 500 South Mint Street, this brick building was constructed in 1924-1925 as the offices, belt-manufacturing plant and warehouse of the Charlotte Supply Company. Lockwood, Greene & Company Engineers designed it, and the Charlotte firm Blythe and Isenhour built it. Classical details give the industrial structure a formal look: shallow brick pilasters, terra cotta sills and cornice, and the company name in bronze letters across the north facade. The company was incorporated in 1889 to furnish machinery, tools, leather belting and parts to textile mills in the Carolina piedmont. Henry C. Clark led it from 1900 to 1917, followed by his son Albert Barton Clark, who bought the lot in 1920 and oversaw construction. The company operated until 1975. The building remains a landmark in Charlotte's Third Ward and is one of few surviving reminders of the textile supply trade. A 1983 renovation added a service wing on the south side.","period_of_significance":"1924-1925","architect_builder":"Lockwood, Greene and Company (architect/engineers); Blythe and Isenhour (builders)","architectural_style":"Commercial/warehouse building with classical ornament","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Recently renovated in 1983 with a four-story service wing added on the south side; marked occupied on the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.734286-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7212/47721280/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002348.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721280","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Supply_Company_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460941"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/charlotte-supply-company-building-84002348/"}