Stokes builds furniture and cabinetry in Roxboro, NC

Fine furniture for artists and designers. Custom cabinetry and millwork for builders, architects, and families.

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Pen drawing of the Somerset Mill: a long brick-and-steel mill with walls of tall steel-frame windows, a water tower behind it, and an old flatbed truck parked along the side.
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A row of plywood chairs in many colors lined up in a bright white room with tall windows. Open kitchen with navy flat-panel cabinets, a wood countertop, and a white oak backsplash wall. Carved wood library bookcases with a pediment reading The Gothic Bookshop. Black inset cabinets with brass pulls under a white quartz counter and full-height backsplash. Rows of open wood cubbies for yoga mats and blankets in a studio.
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Joe Stokes and three other men beside a large dark hull and stacked timber blocks, 1930s. Business card: J. F. Stokes, representing Railway Refrigerator Car Corporation, Chicago.

Our namesake — Joe Stokes — with his crew in the early 1930s.

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Newspaper photo captioned Hill revived Somerset plant in 1964: the long mill building and water tower with houses around it.

Built in a 1926 mill.

The Stokes workshop is a textile mill built in 1926 to spin cotton into thread, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sat empty for years before the Stokes team renovated it and started building there in 2022.

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