Mooresville Mill Village Historic District

Mooresville Mill Village is a densely built residential neighborhood of about 160 acres south of downtown Mooresville, North Carolina. It grew up beside the Mooresville Cotton Mill, which is now vacant and not part of the district because of heavy demolition and alteration. The village is laid out on a street grid without alleys and holds 651 resources, of which 550 contribute to its historic character. Most are modest one- and one-and-a-half-story wood-frame houses on brick foundations with gabled or hipped roofs and front porches. They follow a limited set of house types dating from about 1902 into the late 1920s. Craftsman influence appears mainly in exposed rafter tails and knee braces. The district also includes churches, a historic athletic field, a few commercial buildings and the railroad right-of-way. Many houses have vinyl siding and replacement windows, but the original openings and overall form largely survive. The village developed over roughly twenty-five years as mill expansion created demand for workers' housing, and it was first formally platted into lots in 1949.