The mill buildings, completed in 1900 and 1904, were designed by preeminent mill architects Lockwood, Greene & Co.  Mill No.
1 was three stories and Mill No.
2 was five stories, both of brick with arched lintels and stone sills.
 Mill No.
1 had the carding, drawing, and picking areas plus a repair shop on the first floor; weaving on the second floor; and spooling, warping, and spinning on the third.

The village is laid out along a grid pattern broken by a Y-shaped street which led to the mill and contained the superintendent's house in the Y.  This design is identical to that of Merrimack's mill village in Massachusetts, platted in 1820.
 The houses followed several basic plans: Type A, a one-story, duplex shotgun house; Type B, a rectangular duplex with double central entry doors and a shed roof porch; Type J, a two-story I-house, usually with a shed roof rear addition; Type L, a two-story, cross-gable duplex with side entrances covered by shallow-pitched gable porches; and Type M, a one-story, hipped roof duplex with a shed roofed front porch.
 The 96 Type L houses, most of which were constructed in the first wave of construction before 1910, represent the largest collection of the type in the South.
The mill buildings, completed in 1900 and 1904, were designed by preeminent mill architects Lockwood, Greene & Co.  Mill No. 1 was three stories and Mill No. 2 was five stories, both of brick with arched lintels and stone sills.  Mill No. 1 had the carding, drawing, and picking areas plus a repair shop on the first floor; weaving on the second floor; and spooling, warping, and spinning on the third.
The village is laid out along a grid pattern broken by a Y-shaped street which led to the mill and contained the superintendent's house in the Y.  This design is identical to that of Merrimack's mill village in Massachusetts, platted in 1820.  The houses followed several basic plans: Type A, a one-story, duplex shotgun house; Type B, a rectangular duplex with double central entry doors and a shed roof porch; Type J, a two-story I-house, usually with a shed roof rear addition; Type L, a two-story, cross-gable duplex with side entrances covered by shallow-pitched gable porches; and Type M, a one-story, hipped roof duplex with a shed roofed front porch.  The 96 Type L houses, most of which were constructed in the first wave of construction before 1910, represent the largest collection of the type in the South.
Merrimack Mill Village Historic District