National Register of Historic Places
Coleman-Franklin-Cannon Mill
Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
The record
- Listed
- April 16, 2015
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 625 Main St., SW., Concord
- County
- Cabarrus
- State
- North Carolina
- Contributing resources
- 10 buildings, 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 35.38695, -80.58896
- Reference number
- 15000161
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The story
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The Coleman-Franklin-Cannon Mill is a mill building at 625 Main St. in Concord, Cabarrus County, listed in the National Register in 2015. Built in 1898 in heavy-timber mill construction, it was expanded in 1912 by T. C. Thompson and Brothers, with Stuart W. Cramer as architect.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in architecture, industry and Black ethnic heritage. The nomination gives its period of significance as 1898 to 1965, reflecting the mill's 1898 construction.
Physical character
Its walls are brick, concrete and metal on brick foundations, with heavy-timber framing, low-pitched gable roofs with projecting rafter ends, segmental-arched window and door openings, and corbelled belt courses. Double-thickness wood floors, a four-stage stair tower and a smokestack survive, and the mill grew in stages, with a northeast addition in 1902 and a 1912 cotton warehouse and second-story addition over the picker room and machine shop.
Historical context
Coleman Manufacturing Company ran the mill from 1901 to 1904, Benjamin Duke operated it until 1906, and Franklin Cotton Mills then ran it through 1928. Cannon Mills Company took over as Plant No. 9 until 1986, Fieldcrest Cannon followed to 1997, and Pillowtex Corporation ran it until it closed in 2003.