Adaptive Reuse

ID: 849 ~ Source: Image courtesy of L. L. Sams Historic Lofts
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Adaptive Reuse

In 1946, the growing furniture company replaced Miller Cotton Mills with a rooftop sign advertising L. L. Sams and Sons Church Furniture which still stands atop the building. The factory has been converted through “adaptive reuse” into loft-style apartments.

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By Amanda Sawyer
Though L. L. Sams and Sons became one of the nation’s largest and most popular church furniture suppliers in the twentieth century, it developed from humble beginnings. Rev. L. L. Sams, a traveling Baptist preacher, desired to build a church for his…