Seven historic sites in the Triad and the Triangle are among the 16 historic places the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources recently added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The listing of a property in the National Register places no obligation or restriction on a private owner using private resources to maintain the property. As of January 1, 2016, over 3,500 rehabilitation projects with an estimated private investment of over $2.18 billion have been completed.
Following are the seven properties in the central Piedmont:
Hanes Hosiery Mill, Ivy Avenue Plant in Winston-Salem opened in 1925. By 1929 the factory was operating 1,300 knitting machines and producing 100,000 pairs of circular knit hose a day, making it the third-largest hosiery mill and the largest producer of women’s seamless stockings in the state. Hanes Hosiery helped create a national market for women’s seamless stockings, developing new knitting techniques and technologies that improved the appearance of circular-knit hosiery and launching a national advertising campaign.
John Chavis Memorial Park, Raleigh is historically important as a Works Progress Administration-funded municipal park developed as a “separate but equal” recreational facility for African Americans in 1937. The 26-acre park features distinctive stonework bridges, an amphitheater, rustic log picnic shelters and a 1916 Allan Herschell carousel 36 hand-carved horses.
The Mayodan Downtown Historic District is in the town of Mayodan, founded in 1895 by a group of prominent businessmen from Winston and Salem who believed that the location beside a powerful waterfall on the Mayo River along the newly formed Roanoke and Southern Railroad could support a major textile operation. The downtown architecture is noteworthy for its Commercial Style brick buildings with decorative brick patterning and its distinctive 1971 Municipal Building on West Main Street.
Nathaniel Jones Jr. House in Raleigh is significant as an early Federal-style plantation house with a Greek Revival-style rear addition. To save the house from destruction, it was moved a short distance from its original site to property historically owned by the Jones family. The ca. 1809-1812 two-story house is noteworthy for its hall-parlor plan, flanking one-story side-gable wings, and a large rear stair hall added during the construction of the main house. In ca. 1835-1844, a Greek Revival-style two-story rear addition with a single large room on each story added substantial space to an already commodious home.
1789 Philip and Johanna Hoehns (Hanes) House in Clemmons is an architecturally significant dwelling of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The rural two-story masonry dwelling with refined Flemish-bond brickwork features a distinctive three-room plan. Its appearance has more in common with substantial Moravian brick buildings being erected at the time in Salem than the more common log and timber frame houses of the period. The exterior brickwork is noteworthy, in particular the end gables with brick laid in a chevron pattern and the arched window openings with painted orange and black detailing.
Western Electric Company – Tarheel Army Missile Plant in Burlington is historically important for the military-related manufacturing and product development operations that took place from 1942-1966. Twin-engine laminated-plywood test airplanes and later ordnance were produced during World War II. Western Electric Company leased the plant from 1946-1991 for the manufacturing of sophisticated communications equipment and weapons, including Nike missile guidance and anti-aircraft apparatus. A number of buildings at the plant are important for their architectural design, in particular the step-roofed Buildings 13 and 16 dating from the 1950s.
May Hosiery Mill in Burlington, dating from 1928-29, is architecturally important as an example of an early 20th-century textile mill design. The company, established by brothers William and Benjamin May in 1922, is one of the few remaining historic buildings associated with the hosiery industry in the city. The building features a brick classical façade design, flat-slab reinforced concrete construction, and a distinctive sawtooth roof.
Other North Carolina sites added to the historic register:
Cherryville Downtown Historic District
St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Lauringburg
Cleveland County Training School in Shelby
Davidson Elementary School in Kings Mountain
Berkeley Mills Ballpark in Hendersonville
Fountain Historic District in Fountain (Pitt County)
Pleasant Plains School in Pleasant Plains (Hertford County)
Burt-Arrington House in Nash County