{"nrhp_refnum":"87001740","name":"McKinney Cotton Mill Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Elm, RR tracks, Burrus, Fowler, & Amscott","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinney","county":"Collin County","state":"TX","lat":33.18324681100006,"lon":-96.61120644736225,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-10-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 30-acre historic district in southeastern McKinney, Collin County, Texas, made up of a 1910 cotton textile mill complex and the workers' housing built around it in the 1910s and 1920s, near the Southern Pacific railroad tracks.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is one of the state's finest and most intact examples of a planned mill neighborhood, a type common in the eastern United States but rare in Texas. The mill was built mainly with local financial support and shows the importance of cotton to McKinney and the state. Reviewers accepted it under criteria A and C at the state level.","narrative":"Mill Town, in southeastern McKinney, grew up around a cotton textile mill that opened on November 1, 1910. The district covers about 30 acres and holds the two-story brick mill, three warehouses, a two-story boarding house and roughly 70 contributing structures, mostly one-story frame workers' houses set close to the street in uniform rows. The first 17 cottages went up with the mill in 1910, and more followed in 1926 during a $200,000 expansion by contractor J. E. Cooper. Local business leaders, led by J. Perry Burrus, financed the mill, which grew to 376 looms by 1917 and employed more than 520 people. A 1948 tornado damaged it, and it closed in 1969, when a furniture maker took over the plant. The district is listed because few Texas textile mills were built, and almost no other mill-and-housing complex survives as intact. Many houses are dilapidated, and some lots stand empty.","period_of_significance":"1900-1937","architect_builder":"J. E. Cooper (contractor for the 1926 mill expansion and additional workers' houses)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill was converted to a furniture plant in 1969 and remains in good condition. The workers' houses are in fair to poor condition, and some are abandoned or dilapidated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.498075-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/9686/40968629/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/87001740.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001740/20e51a7c68-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001740/20e51a7c68-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McKinneyCottonMillHistoricDistrict2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</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:McKinneyCottonMillHistoricDistrict2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968629","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999664"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/collin-county/mckinney-cotton-mill-historic-district-87001740/"}