Lloyd, Thomas F., Historic District

Thirty frame houses on East Carr Street, Maple Avenue and South Greensboro Street in Carrboro make up this mill village district. Thomas F. Lloyd built most of them between about 1910 and 1915 to house workers at his second textile mill, which Durham Hosiery Mill acquired in 1913 and renamed Mill Number 7. The mill is gone, but the houses remain. Most are modest one-story, one-room-deep dwellings with rear ells, triple-A rooflines and hip-roofed porches, along with a few larger two-story L-shaped houses meant for bigger families. Many have asbestos shingles over the original weatherboards, but the form describes the group as the largest body of relatively unaltered mill housing left in Carrboro. Lots are large, with deep rear yards originally meant for kitchen gardens. Twenty-five buildings contribute to the district, three do not, and two later brick ranch houses are intrusions. The form also suggests that buried remains of outbuildings and gardens could add to knowledge of mill families' daily lives.