Buffalo Mill Historic District

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]

Buffalo Mill Historic District
Buffalo Cotton Textile Mill, HABS Photo, November 1986
LocationVillage of Buffalo and immediate surroundings, Buffalo, South Carolina
Coordinates34°43′23″N 81°40′39″W
Area200.6 acres (81.2 ha)
Built1929 (1929)
ArchitectWhaley, W.B. Smith,& Co.
Architectural styleRomanesque, Late 19th And Early 20th Century American Movements
MPSTextile Mills designed by W.B. Smith Whaley MPS
NRHP reference No.90001506[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 10, 1990

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

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine


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