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VOL. XVI
Spray, N. C., Monday, March 31, 1958
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^ew General Offices building of Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., on Stadium Drive, Spray, was opened to employees and the general public,
‘Open House’ At New General Offices
Fieldcrest Mills’ new General Offices building, located on Stadium
Drive, Spray, was officially opened to the public on Saturday, March 29.
“Open House” for the building which houses the company’s General
Management, Accounting, Comptroller’s, Cost, Data Processing, En
gineering, Industrial Relations, Payroll, Service and Standards Depart
ments was held from 9 a. m. to 12 o’clock noon and from 1 p. m. to
4 p. m. Employees and the general public were given guided tours
through the entire building which has just been occupied.
The new building which releases 30,- able for the building’s approximately
000 square feet of manufacturing space
formerly occupied by offices is of mod
ern and fireproof construction. Exterior
^alls, combining brick with glass and
ftietal panels, provide open and well-
lighted office facilities in beautiful
'vooded surroundings. The new structure
is approximately equidistant from the
company’s mill areas in Leaksville,
Spray, and Draper.
The new office building is 178 feet
Wide and 218 feet deep containing 42,-
50o square feet. The building is situated
on a knoll with landscaped lawns sloping
downward to Stadium Drive. Curving
driveways lead to the front entrance and
Continue around the building to the
125 occupants and for visitors, with spe
cial provision for visitors to the Em
ployment Office and the Medical De
partment.
The building is mostly one-story with
a partial second story containing the ex
ecutive offices and a guest apartment
which are reached through stairways
from the main lobby and from a separate
outside entrance. The guest apartment
has four bedrooms and facilities for ser
ving breakfast to accommodate overnight
visitors from the company’s New York
sales divisions and other out-of-town
guests.
Contracts for the building were let
March 25, 1957, and construction was
sufficiently completed to enable the first
departments to move into the building
on February 15, 1958. Other departments
moved during the next two weeks and
the new building was completely occu
pied on March 1.
Total contracts for the building were
slightly in excess of $800,000. Robert
and Company Associates of Atlanta, Ga.,
were the architects and supervising en
gineers. Contracts were awarded low
bidders as follows general contractor,
King-Hunter, Inc., Greensboro; electri
cal, Adams Electric Co., Reidsville; and
plumbing, Robb Plumbing and Heating
Co., High Point.
Harold W. Whitcomb, president of
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc., said the new build
ing makes available approximately 30,-
000 square feet of space which is badly
needed for manufacturing purposes. It
releases the Nantucket building for use
by the Automatic Blanket Mill and re
leases additional space where it is need
ed in the Finishing Mill by moving some
of the office personnel from that build
ing into the former General Office.
The new building provides economies
and more efficient operation through
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