{"nrhp_refnum":"88001702","name":"Hoskins Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 S. Hoskins Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.26370953900005,"lon":-80.88622809699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick cotton mill and a one-and-a-half-story brick office building at 201 S. Hoskins Road, about three and a half miles northwest of central Charlotte, North Carolina. The mill was built in 1903-4 and the office around 1915.","why_significant":"The mill is locally significant for its role in Charlotte's cotton mill industry and for its architecture. It is one of only two cotton mills in the city that remain essentially intact, the other being Highland Park No. 3. It was part of the Chadwick-Hoskins Company, the largest textile business in North Carolina by 1908, and was one of the early large projects of the J. A. Jones Company.","narrative":"Hoskins Mill is a brick cotton mill with a companion office building in northwest Charlotte, built in 1903-4 beside the earlier Chadwick Mill. The mill measures 385 by 101 feet, with three floors of weaving, carding and spinning space, a one-story weaving room, and a low-pitched gable roof on wide wooden brackets. Inside, it has post-and-beam construction and maple floors. The office, built between 1911 and 1929, keeps its oak-and-glass pay counter and a safe marked Chadwick-Hoskins Co. The mill and the Chadwick together raised the county's mill capacity by about thirty percent. In 1908 it joined the Chadwick-Hoskins Company, then the largest textile business in North Carolina, and in 1920-21 it became part of the Gossett chain. Few early Charlotte mills survive so complete; only Highland Park No. 3 compares. Production continued until a 1985 fire, and the period of significance runs from 1903 to 1938. It was recognized for its place in local industry and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1903-1938","architect_builder":"Jones, J. A., Construction Company","architectural_style":"Other: Textile Mill Vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use. Industrial use ended after a fire in August 1985 damaged the southwest end and the engine housing.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.934577-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7213/47721384/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/88001702.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721384","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoskins_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19462407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/hoskins-mill-88001702/"}