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Durham Hosiery Mill is a historic
textile mill Textile Manufacturing or Textile Engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods ...
complex located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It includes seven contributing brick buildings in the complex. The original Durham Hosiery Mill was built in 1902, and consists of a four-story main building with a six-story Romanesque Revival style tower in front; engine, boiler, and heater houses attached at the rear, and a one-story dye house. The main building was expanded with a two-story annex in 1904, and a three-story annex in 1906. Other buildings include the triangular Annex No. 1 (1912) and a three-story brick finishing building. By 1910, the Durham Hosiery Mills Corporation was the largest manufacturer of cotton hosiery in the world. The mill was abandoned in 1922. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1978.


See also

* Durham Hosiery Mills Dye House * Durham Hosiery Mills No. 2-Service Printing Company Building


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* Textile mills in North Carolina Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Romanesque Revival architecture in North Carolina Industrial buildings completed in 1902 Buildings and structures in Durham, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina {{DurhamCountyNC-NRHP-stub