Pineville Mill Village Historic District

Pineville Mill Village is a residential district of roughly nine blocks south of Main Street in Pineville, about ten miles south of Charlotte. Its one-story frame houses were built for workers at the adjoining brick textile mill, first after Dover Yarn Mills opened in 1894 and again in the 1920s under the Chadwick-Hoskins Company. Five repeated house types were used, including T-plan mill houses near the mill and hip-roofed and side-gable bungalows on the south side. Larger Queen Anne-style houses on Dover Street were built for plant managers, showing the social hierarchy of mill communities. Charlotte landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper updated the village plan in the 1920s, leaving a tree-lined median on Park Avenue. Cone Mills Corporation, which acquired the plant in 1946, altered every house around 1950. The district is considered significant because the village survives largely intact, with even spacing, original lots, and consistent house forms, and it is described as the best preserved small-town mill village in the county. Its period of significance ends in 1961.