{"nrhp_refnum":"84002492","name":"Grimes Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"600 N. Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Salisbury","county":"Rowan County","state":"NC","lat":35.67302821000004,"lon":-80.46542206499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-02-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick and granite roller flour mill at 600 North Church Street in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, built in 1896-97 as the North Side Roller Mill and later expanded with frame additions.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare North Carolina example of Second Empire style industrial architecture, with an intact original structure and most of its early twentieth-century belt-driven machinery. It is also tied to the industrialization of the piedmont, to its builders N. B. McCanless and D. R. Julian, and to the Grimes milling family, who ran it from 1906 to 1963. It operated continuously until 1982.","narrative":"Grimes Mill, at 600 North Church Street in Salisbury, is a three-story brick flour mill trimmed with granite and topped by a mansard roof, dormers and a cupola. Built in 1896-97 as the North Side Roller Mill, it was organized by local businessmen including D. R. Julian and brothers James and Napoleon B. McCanless. John D. Grimes bought it at a bankruptcy sale in 1906, and his family ran it until 1963. Later operators kept it working until 1982. Frame additions, including a grain elevator, were added over time, but the original block survives with most of its belt-driven roller mills, sifters, scourers and packing machinery. The building is considered one of very few Second Empire style industrial buildings in North Carolina. It was listed for its architecture, for its link to the late nineteenth-century industrialization of the piedmont and the agricultural economy of Rowan County, and for its association with its builders and the Grimes milling family. The Historic Salisbury Foundation planned to open it as a mill museum.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Operated as a mill until 1982, when the Historic Salisbury Foundation bought it, planning to reopen it as a working mill museum; the original machinery largely remains.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.030625-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/7221/47722116/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/84002492.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002492/c5265937b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002492/c5265937b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JoannaSerah","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrimesMill-Salisbury-NorthCarolina.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JoannaSerah</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:GrimesMill-Salisbury-NorthCarolina.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722116","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_Mill_(Salisbury,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5609251"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/rowan-county/grimes-mill-84002492/"}