CottonMill Apartments
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Restore America Showcase: New Orleans, Louisiana Built in New Orleans in 1882, the Maginnis Cotton Mill was one of the largest textile factories in the South, producing 21 million yards of cotton a year until it closed in 1944. The structure then had a series of owners and was finally vacated in the 1970s.
In 1995, restoration developers Pres Kabacoff, Eddie Boettner and Tom Crumley bought the 320,000-square-foot brick building, with a plan to create 269 apartments and 17 condominiums that celebrated the Mill's history.
They reconfigured the factory courtyard into recreational space, preserved the brick tower that once held the factory clock, and kept the water tower as a symbol of the building's industrial past.
Inside, workers restored the mill's double-hung, cyprus windows and repaired damaged brick walls.
The heart-pine floors were restored and salvage art was fashioned out of the Mill's boiler and other machinery from the former factory.
In 1999, the Cotton Mill Apartments and Condominiums won a National Preservation Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Resources New Orleans Regional Chamber of Commerce
Website:
www.norcc.orgThe CottonMill Apartments
The CottonMill Apartments
920 Poeyfarre
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504-566-9700
URL:
www.hrihci.com/cottonmill/
The Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
The Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
923 Tchoupitoulas St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504-581-7032
E-mail:
prc@prcno.org
Website:
www.prcno.org
Historic Restoration, Inc.
Historic Restoration, Inc.
210 Baronne St.
Suite 1717
New Orleans, LA 0112
Phone: 504-566-0204
Website:
www.hrihci.com
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