Buffalo Mill Historic District

Buffalo Mill Historic District

Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, HABS Photo, November 1986
Location Village of Buffalo and immediate surroundings, Buffalo, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°43′23″N 81°40′39″W / 34.72306°N 81.67750°W / 34.72306; -81.67750Coordinates: 34°43′23″N 81°40′39″W / 34.72306°N 81.67750°W / 34.72306; -81.67750
Area 200.6 acres (81.2 ha)
Built 1929 (1929)
Architect Whaley, W.B. Smith,& Co.
Architectural style Romanesque, Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements
MPS Textile Mills designed by W.B. Smith Whaley MPS
NRHP Reference # 90001506[1]
Added to NRHP October 10, 1990

Buffalo Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Union County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 190 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures associated with the Buffalo Mill textile mill complex and mill village. The mill complex includes the main mill, mill office, power house, ice factory, mill warehouse, company store, and company bank/drug store. The main mill building features applied stylized Romanesque Revival detailing. The mill village housing varies from large, free-classic, Queen Anne style supervisor’s houses, to shingle-style bungalows, to simple, one-story, workers residences. The village also includes a school and a baseball field/park.[2][3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ J. Tracy Power and Frank Brown, III (February 1990). "Buffalo Mill Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
  3. ↑ "Buffalo Mill Historic District, Union County (Buffalo)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-07-01. and accompanying map

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