"Monaghan Mill was established by first cousins Lewis Wardlaw Parker (1865-1916) and Thomas Fleming Parker (1860-1926).  The Parkers named the mill after their grandfather Thomas Fleming’s native county in Ireland.  The four-story mill, which was designed by Lockwood, Greene, and Company, was built in 1900.  Monaghan Mill opened in 1901 with 25,000 spindles, but soon expanded.  By 1907 the mill employed 700 workers. From the start the Parkers intended to make Monagahan Mill and its village a model of enlightened paternalism.  They employed no children under the age of twelve and constructed the Monaghan School for the children of the village.  Thomas Parker built the first Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in a southern textile mill village and became nationally known for the employee programs he instituted at Monaghan Mill to contribute to the intellectual, spiritual, and physical well being of the community.  These included a kindergarten program, adult education classes, Bible studies, a medical clinic, and recreational opportunities.  A smokestack, water tower, pond, and elements of historic landscaping remain on the mill property."South Carolina Department of Archives and History

"While standing on the front porch of her Smythe Street home, Nancy Hawkins can see the shell of the old Monaghan Mill building and envision wonderful things. She has visions of lights, families and vitality coming from the mill, stemming from a proposal to transform the mill and its surrounding properties into a 183-unit apartment complex.
. . Because individual mills were the reason for the development of neighborhoods — towns, for that matter — their reuse is imperative for the welfare of the surrounding communities, according to Grant Cunningham, an associate professor of city and regional planning at Clemson University.
. . The Greenville County Council is expected to take a preliminary vote Tuesday on a request by the mill owners to rezone 17.36 acres of the mill property for their planned $15 million development.
. . One of the mill's owners and developers, said their project will raise property values in Monaghan "and that's what revitalization is all about — bringing something up, not taking it down."
. . The 479,000-square-foot mill is more than a century old. It was a working textile mill as late as 2001, before JPS Apparel Fabrics Corp. closed it.
. . Monaghan is among the best of Greenville's textile properties and is eligible to be nominated for designation to the National Register of Historic Places, said Brad Sauls of the State Historic Preservation Office." Angelia Davis, Greenville News November 27, 2004

Contstruction is well underway. The Lofts of Greenville is featured on WYFF news. Click here to watch the clip.