Converse Mill

National Register Listing

Street Address:

200 High St., Spartanburg vicinity (Spartanburg County)

Alternate Name:

Clifton Mill #3

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817742070

Description and Narrative:

Converse Mill is significant for its association with the mill industry in Spartanburg County from 1903 to 1965, and for it architecture as an intact example of a turn of the century industrial complex. Designed by the famed Boston mill engineering and architectural firm Lockwood, Greene, and Company, the mill was built in the latter half of 1903 as a replacement for an earlier mill destroyed by a flood in June of 1903. The architectural style of the building is typical of most multi-storied textile mills in South Carolina, and throughout the Southeast, as it is built entirely in brick with arched window openings and granite sills. The mill site contains the main mill building, comprising approximately 204,500 square feet over four floors sitting on a partial brick basement. The building is a rectangle thirty-four bays in length and eleven bays in width. A one-story brick addition, built between 1949 and 1952 and comprising approximately 35,000 square feet is located on the west side of the building. Also located on site is a contributing metal water tower that appears to date to the 1903 construction of the main mill building. Listed in the National Register October 5, 2015.

Period of Significance:

1903 – 1965

Level of Significance:

Local

Area of Significance:

Industry;Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

October 5 2015

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