Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex

Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex is a historic factory complex located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1929–1930, and consists of a two-story office building and massive tall, one-story Grinnell manufacturing building. The office building is a reinforced concrete structure, with a brick veneer, a flat roof, and a parapet capped in concrete coping. The manufacturing building has a poured concrete slab foundation, brick veneered walls, a steel framing system consisting of I-beam piers and heavy Pratt truss roof, banks of continuous, steel sash windows, and large, sawtooth monitors. The complex was built for the largest manufacturer of automatic sprinklers and other fire protection products in North America.^[2]

Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinquisher Company Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Grinnell Company Office Building, September 2014
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Location	1431 W. Morehead St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°13′42″N 80°52′0″W
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1929 (1929)-1930
Architect	Sirrine, J.E.
Architectural style	Early Commercial, Industrial
NRHP reference No.	03001275[1]
Added to NRHP	December 10, 2003

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Mattson, Alexander; Associates, Inc. (February 2003). "Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinquisher Company Complex" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.