National Register of Historic Places
Acme-McCrary Hosiery Mills
Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina
The record
- Listed
- August 18, 2014
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 124, 148, 159 North & 173 N. Church Sts., Asheboro
- County
- Randolph
- State
- North Carolina
- Contributing resources
- 6 buildings, 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 35.70693, -79.81542
- Reference number
- 14000496
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The story
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Acme-McCrary Hosiery Mills is a mill complex of six buildings and one structure on North Church Street in Asheboro, Randolph County, built in stages from 1909 to 1972 in a mix of Commercial Style, Italianate and Art Moderne design.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture and exploration and settlement; its period of significance runs from 1909, when the earliest mill went up, to 1964.
Physical character
The mill buildings combine steel-framed, load-bearing brick-wall construction with heavy-timber and concrete-mushroom-column sections, faced in brick veneer on brick foundations under a rubber roof. A renovation around 1936 unified the three-part North Street facade; the dye house gained a second story in 1947; and a 1962 brick office and warehouse gained a third floor in 1972.
Historical context
Seventeen Asheboro businessmen created the Acme Hosiery Company in 1907, and in 1909 D. B. McCrary, T. H. Redding and W. J. Armfield Jr. took over ownership; a 1961 merger created the Acme-McCrary Corporation. Manufacturing moved from Asheboro to a second location in Siler City in 2012; that year the Randolph County Senior Adults Association acquired Mill No. 3, and the building became a resource and enrichment center.