{"nrhp_refnum":"99000064","name":"Garrou-Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mills","other_names":["Premier Hosiery Mills","Morgantown Hosiery Mills"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 and 105 Lenoir St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morganton","county":"Burke County","state":"NC","lat":35.747622138000054,"lon":-81.68663751799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-01-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former full-fashioned hosiery mill complex on the northwest corner of Lenoir Avenue and East Union Streets on the northeastern edge of downtown Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. Its main buildings date from 1927-1929 and 1928-1939 and were later known as the Premier Manufacturing Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a significant early twentieth-century example of the Art Moderne style in industrial architecture, with glass-block detailing and brick pilasters, and that it is the most notably detailed surviving industrial building of its period in Burke County. It also argues the mill documents industrial development in Morganton during the mid-twentieth century and was a catalyst for expansion of the business district along East Union Street.","narrative":"Built in 1927 on Lenoir Street in Morganton, the mill complex grew from the Garrou Knitting Mill and the Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mill, which merged in 1926. The main buildings are of brick, cast concrete and steel, with glass-block windows set between brick pilasters in vertical rows, a design typical of the Art Moderne style. The 1891 Morganton Manufacturing and Trading Company building was incorporated into the older knitting mill. The complex is regarded as an excellent example of early twentieth-century Art Moderne industrial design in Burke County. It also reflects the growth of hosiery manufacturing in Morganton, which was introduced to the county by Waldensian families such as the Garrous in the 1890s. The mill operated on the site until 1995, and its expansion influenced the development of the East Union corridor.","period_of_significance":"1927-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Art Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The mill operated until it went bankrupt in early 1995; in December 1997 the Morganton Redevelopment Commission purchased the property for adaptive reuse.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.715434-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7193/47719321/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000064.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000064/1b3a9e00c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000064/1b3a9e00c6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Warren LeMay","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garrou-Morganton_Full-Fashioned_Hosiery_Mills,_Morganton,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garrou-Morganton_Full-Fashioned_Hosiery_Mills,_Morganton,_NC.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87001930","name":"Morganton Downtown Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/morganton-downtown-historic-district-87001930/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719321","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrou-Morganton_Full-Fashioned_Hosiery_Mills","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150623"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/burke-county/garrou-morganton-full-fashioned-hosiery-mills-99000064/"}