Woodside Cotton Mill Village Historic District is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in

Greenville County, South Carolina Greenville County is located in the state of South Carolina, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 525,534, making it the most populous county in the state. Its county seat is Greenville. The county is also home to the ...

. The district encompasses 278 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in an early 20th century urban South Carolina

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 ...

village. Centered on a mill founded by John T. Woodside in 1902, the district is located just west of the city limits of Greenville and is largely intact despite modernizations made by a succession of mill and home owners. The mill itself is a rectangular, brick, four-story building designed by J.E. Sirrine and built between 1902 and 1912. Eventually the mill became the largest cotton mill under one roof in the United States and one of the largest in the world. The village contains 343 surviving mill houses, a cotton waste house, a mill office building, a recreation building, two churches, a baseball park, and a pasture/common garden area. an
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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 1987. Several plans to convert the empty mill to apartments, senior housing, or artist studios have not been achieved due to lack of financing.Amy Clarke Burns, "Q&Amy: New Plans for Woodside Mill?" ''Greenville News'', September 26, 2015, 3A. In 2021, Woodside Mill was converted into loft-style apartments, opening as The Lofts at Woodside Mill. Photographs of the mill, village, and community can be viewed in the Greenville County Library System digital collections.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Greenville County, South Carolina Historic districts in Greenville County, South Carolina Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Cotton mills in the United States Company towns in South Carolina Textile mills in South Carolina {{GreenvilleCountySC-NRHP-stub