Renfro Mill
Renfro Mill is located in North Carolina
Renfro Mill
Renfro Mill is located in the United States
Renfro Mill
LocationJct. of Willow and Oak Sts.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Coordinates36°30′5″N 80°36′36″W / 36.50139°N 80.61000°W / 36.50139; -80.61000
Arealess than one acre
Builtc. 1893 (1893), 1946-1947
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.00001208[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 12, 2000

Renfro Mill, also known as R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House, is a historic industrial building located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. The original section was built as a tobacco barn about 1893. The largest addition was built in 1946–1947. It is a one- to 4 1/2-story, brick, concrete, steel, wood, and granite industrial building encompassing 100,000 square feet of space. It was originally built to house a tobacco leaf house, and after 1921 the Renfro company, a sock manufacturer. The mill closed in 1997.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Laura A. W. Phillips (November 1999). "Renfro Mill" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.


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