Renfro Mill
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Location | Jct. of Willow and Oak Sts. Mount Airy, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°30′5″N 80°36′36″W / 36.50139°N 80.61000°WCoordinates: 36°30′5″N 80°36′36″W / 36.50139°N 80.61000°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | c. 1893 | , 1946-1947
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
NRHP Reference # | 00001208 |
Added to NRHP | October 12, 2000 |
Renfro Mill, also known as R. Roberts Leaf Tobacco House, is a historic industrial building located at Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. The original section was built as a tobacco barn about 1893. The largest addition was built in 1946-1947. It is a one- to 4 1/2-story, brick, concrete, steel, wood, and granite industrial building encompassing 100,000 square feet of space. It was originally built to house a tobacco leaf house, and after 1921 the Renfro company, a sock manufacturer. The mill closed in 1997.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.