Edenton Cotton Mill Collection 1893-1895, 1898-1900, 1903, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1952, 1966

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Edenton Cotton Mill Collection 1893-1895, 1898-1900, 1903, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1952, 1966

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The Edenton Cotton Mill Collection is comprised of several dozen sheets of blueprints and two sets of specifications that document the selected phases of the planning and construction of the Edenton Cotton Mill in Edenton, North Carolina. There are also a few blueprints of mill village houses designed by the Aladdin Company. These materials were originally part of the North Carolina Buildings Collection (MC 00225). The Edenton cotton mill and mill village represent a rare example of industrial construction in North Carolina's coastal plain. Designed by nationally known mill engineers, C.R. Makepeace and Company of Rhode Island, the mill structure itself features popular Italianate elements, while the mass of the building expresses the functional requirements of a cotton mill. The architecture of the mill village reflects national trends in the Colonial revival style of the supervisors' and engineers' houses, and in the "operatives'" prefabricated houses from the Aladdin Company of Bay City, Mich. Other operatives' houses reflect vernacular practices common to North Carolina's rural and urban landscape.

3.5 Linear feet; 1 legal archival box and 10 flat folders.

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6635756

North Carolina State University. Special Collections Research Center

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Edenton Cotton Mill.

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Preservation North Carolina (Organization)

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Founded in 1939, Preservation North Carolina (PNC) is North Carolina's only private nonprofit statewide historic preservation organization. Its mission is to protect and promote buildings, landscapes and sites important to the diverse heritage of North Carolina. PNC has been involved in a number of programs and activities. Through its award-winning Endangered Properties Program, PNC has acquired endangered historic properties and then found purchasers to rehabilitate them. Since the early 1980s ...

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Aladdin Company

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The Aladdin Company was established by two brothers, William J. and Otto E. Sovereign, as a partnership in 1906. The original name of the company was the North American Construction Company, which changed to the Aladdin Company in 1916. The Company manufactured readi-cut houses, which it sold through mail-order catalogs. It stopped manufacturing houses in 1982 and was legally dissolved in 1987. The Company's success was based on advertising. The houses it manufactured and sold indicate popular t...

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The Edenton cotton mill and mill village represent a rare example of industrial construction in North Carolina's coastal plain. Designed by nationally known mill engineers, C.R. Makepeace and Company of Rhode Island, the mill structure itself features popular Italianate elements, while the mass of the building expresses the functional requirements of a cotton mill. The architecture of the mill village reflects national trends in the Colonial revival style of the supervisors' and eng...