Buffalo Mill Historic District
Buffalo Mill Historic District | |
.jpg) Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, HABS Photo, November 1986 | |
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| Location | Village of Buffalo and immediate surroundings, Buffalo, South Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 34°43′23″N 81°40′39″W / 34.72306°N 81.67750°W |
| Area | 200.6 acres (81.2 ha) |
| Built | 1929 |
| Architect | Whaley, W.B. Smith,& Co. |
| Architectural style | Romanesque, Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements |
| MPS | Textile Mills designed by W.B. Smith Whaley MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 90001506[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 10, 1990 |
Buffalo Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Union County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 190 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures associated with the Buffalo Mill textile mill complex and mill village. The mill complex includes the main mill, mill office, power house, ice factory, mill warehouse, company store, and company bank/drug store. The main mill building features applied stylized Romanesque Revival detailing. The mill village housing varies from large, free-classic, Queen Anne style supervisor's houses, to shingle-style bungalows, to simple, one-story, workers residences. The village also includes a school and a baseball field/park.[2][3]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ J. Tracy Power and Frank Brown, III (February 1990). "Buffalo Mill Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
- ^ "Buffalo Mill Historic District, Union County (Buffalo)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved July 1, 2014. and accompanying map Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit]- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under SC Route 215, Buffalo, Union County, SC:
- HAER No. SC-19, "Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Building", 6 photos, 2 color transparencies, 2 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
- HAER No. SC-19A, "Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Power Plant", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
- HAER No. SC-19B, "Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Mill Office", 8 photos, 2 color transparencies, 2 photo caption pages
- HAER No. SC-19C, "Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Power Plant", 4 photos, 1 photo caption page
- HAER No. SC-19D, "Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, Worker's House", 1 photo, 1 photo caption page
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