Front and East Side Elevations
Nebel Knitting Company (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Front and East Side Elevations
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Original Format:
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Tracing paper
- Extent:
- scale: 1/8in.=1ft.; 40 x 19 inches
- Item identifier:
- unccmc00148-001-ad0020-010-001_0019
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural drawings
Elevations (architectural drawings)
- Location:
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Charlotte (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Beaux Arts to Modernism: “Beaux Arts to Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina” was an LSTA-grant funded project to digitize architectural drawings and photographs documenting historic buildings in North Carolina. Architects represented in the project include Brown and Alexander Architect Engineering (née Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed); Martin E. Boyer; Eric G. Flannagan; Northup & O'Brien; Herbert Woodley Simpson, Louis Asbury; Leslie Boney; Charles Parker; Richard Sharp Smith; Douglas Ellington, and William H. Deitrick. The project was a partnership of the NC State University Libraries, the State Archives of North Carolina, the UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, and the Asheville Art Museum.
Source information
- Repository:
- J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Collection:
- Brown and Alexander Architect Engineering (née Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed) records, 1895-1960 (UNCC MC00148) held by J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Nebel Knitting Company (Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Street:
- 101 West Worthington Avenue
- Community:
- Charlotte
- State:
- North Carolina
- Zip:
- 28203
- Provenance note:
- The mill was built for Nebel Knitting, the South's first producer of fine-gauge silk hosiery.
- Architectural note:
- The two-story main building encloses a courtyard and has large double windows, separated by pilasters. The annex, constructed in 1946 from a design by Herman V. Biberstein, was done in the Moderne style.
- Location:
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Charlotte (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Clothing factories
Historic buildings
Hosiery industry
Knitting machines
- Latitude, Longitude:
- 35.211467, -80.860262