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Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex

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Coordinates: 35°13′42″N 80°52′0″W / 35.22833°N 80.86667°W / 35.22833; -80.86667
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Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinquisher Company Complex
Grinnell Company Office Building, September 2014
Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex is located in North Carolina
Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex
Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex is located in the United States
Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex
Location1431 W. Morehead St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates35°13′42″N 80°52′0″W / 35.22833°N 80.86667°W / 35.22833; -80.86667
Area1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built1929 (1929)-1930
ArchitectSirrine, J.E.
Architectural styleEarly Commercial, Industrial
NRHP reference No.03001275[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 10, 2003

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]

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

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  1. ^ a b "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.


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