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Making Carrboro Home: User Alteration of Company Space. (2005) Directed by Patrick Lee Lucas. 158pp. This
investigation considers the mill housing in Carrboro,
North Carolina, and its evolution once it passed
from company to private ownership. Seeking to bring
together an existing body of knowledge, and apply
it to a specific place and time, the study supplements
the scholarship and evaluations of the built environment.
Carrboro fits into a national textile history, and
its mills are simultaneously consistent with and
different from the industry as a whole. Like much
of the Southern textile industry, the company built
the workers’ housing,
maintained it for decades, and then sold the majority
of the properties at auction in 1939. A change in
the houses was inevitable, as individuals altered
what were once identical structures. Using material
cultural theory, industrial landscape studies and
an understanding of the ways that buildings evolve,
a small sample of the original mill houses reveal
the cultural weathering and alterations made after
the auction. These renovations demonstrate the shifting
requirements and desires of the owners and how people
show personal identity within the built environment.
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