- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Newnan Cotton Mill
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Newnan Cotton Mill (Newnan, Ga.)
Newnan Lofts Apartments (Newnan, Ga.)
Moffson, Steven H. - Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Coweta County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Coweta County
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Coweta County
Textile factories
Mills and mill-work
Cotton manufacture
Cotton textile industry
Cotton trade
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Coweta County, Newnan, 33.38067, -84.79966
- Medium:
- color slides
saddlebag houses
shotgun houses
cotton mills
gothic revival
queen anne revival
saltbox houses
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- The Newnan Cotton Mill was established in 1888. From its National Register of Historic Places application, prepared by Steven Moffson of the Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources in 2002: The Newnan Cotton Mill and Mill Village Historic District features a late-19th and early 20th-century mill complex located east of downtown Newnan. The original 1888 mill was a two-story, stone-and-brick structure along the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, characterized by segmental-arched windows and a shallow-pitched gable roof. Inside, an open workspace was divided by chamfered columns, later subdivided into loft apartments. Fire protection was provided by a 12,000-gallon iron water tower, augmented by a larger 75,000-gallon tower circa 1950. In 1905, a significant two-story addition doubled the mill's size, adding engine and boiler houses and a four-story tower, maintaining the long, narrow design and windowed façade of the original building. Worker housing in the mill village initially included "s saddlebag" houses built in 1888 on Field and Murray streets, small frame duplexes with four rooms and a shed-roofed porch. Later, additional streets were developed with similar duplexes and two-story saltbox houses. Single-family saddlebag and shotgun houses were also constructed. Many multi-family units were converted to single-family dwellings after 1956. The mill village also features several community landmark buildings. Mills Chapel, built c.1890, is a rectangular weatherboard building with a steeply pitched gable roof and Gothic Revival elements. The Lovejoy Methodist Church, built in 1904, is a brick-veneer Gothic Revival structure. The mill manager's house, c.1900, is a Queen Anne-style house with irregular massing. The 1916 mill office is the district's high-style building, featuring a Renaissance Revival design with a red terra-cotta-tile hip roof and an elaborate door surround. Additional architectural elements include cotton warehouses built between 1900-1914, divided by brick firewalls, and a 1924 opening and picker house with a concrete frame and industrial steel casement windows. The historic district also encompasses the quarry where the stone was hewn for the 1888 mill, a baseball field, and the surviving two-story oil press building from the Robert McBride Company Cotton Seed Oil Works, showcasing plain brick façades and segmental-arched windows. In 1950, the Newnan mills employed over 1,000 workers. That same year, the company reorganized and began producing crimped synthetic fabrics. In 1956, both mills were sold to Mount Vernon Mills, a Baltimore company. Production declined and in 1960, West-Point Pepperell purchased the East Newnan Mill and the Bibb Manufacturing Company bought the Newnan Cotton Mill, which ceased operations as a textile mill by 1970. The Bibb company used the Newnan mill for textile storage until it sold the property in 1995. Between 1997-2001, the mill was rehabilitated as a mixed-use loft development in compliance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. The Newnan Lofts Apartments received final certification on April 16, 2001 by the National Park Service, Technical Services Preservation Branch. An unmarked African American cemetery located on Farmer Street adjacent to the mill village is not included in the historic district because the cemetery was not historically associated with the mill and mill village. Variant names include: Newnan Cotton Mill. See ref # 02000339 (Newnan Cotton Mill and Mill Village Historic District) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_506
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_506#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_506/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
-
