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Former Parks Cramer Company Complex

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Built
  
1919 (1919)-1955

NRHP Reference #
  
94000146

Added to NRHP
  
7 March 1994

Built by
  
Clement, E. H., & Co.

Area
  
2 ha

Former Parks-Cramer Company Complex

Location
  
2000 South Blvd., Charlotte, North Carolina

Architectural style
  
Industrial functionalism

Former Parks-Cramer Company Complex is a historic factory complex located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The contributing resources are the Manufacturing Building; Shipping, Receiving, and Pipe Storage building; storage building; and rail spur line and they were developed between 1919 and 1955. The Manufacturing Building is divided into six sections, and is a large one-story brick building with a flat roof and stepped parapets It features banks of large, steel-sash factory windows. The Parks-Cramer facility was one of the region's foremost manufacturers of humidifiers and air-conditioning equipment for the new cotton mills.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Former Parks-Cramer Company Complex Wikipedia