Shamrock Mills

United States historic place


Shamrock Mills
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Shamrock Mills, September 2007
36°5′45″N 80°14′55″W / 36.09583°N 80.24861°W / 36.09583; -80.24861
Area	less than one acre
Built	1911 (1911), 1925
NRHP reference No.	78001951^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 23, 1978

Shamrock Mills, also known as Hanes Hosiery Mill #1, is a historic textile mill building located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was built in 1911, and is a one-story brick building with daylight basement. It is six bays deep and extends in seven sections with a rhythmic saw-tooth roof and six-foot skylights. An addition was built in 1925. It was the first building used by the Hanes Hosiery Company. The mill closed in 1926, and the building subsequently housed a Cadillac dealership.^[2] The building houses the Sawtooth School for Visual Art.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Gwynne S. Taylor (n.d.). "Shamrock Mills" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.