Wedding DJ at Plant Seven in High Point, NC

The Space

Plant Seven occupies the former Adams-Millis Hosiery Mill, a building that goes back to 1904, when John Hampton Adams and James Henry Millis brought hosiery manufacturing to High Point for the first time. The 94,931-square-foot mill sat as a 90-year-old industrial building before developer Tim Branscome, working with Raleigh-based Louis Cherry Architecture and Brooklyn-based Standard Issue Design, converted it into what exists today, and the building soft opened October 12 through 17, 2018, timed to coincide with the High Point Market furniture trade show.

The project received $1.5 million in state funding from North Carolina, matched by donations that included a gift from Bill Millis, heir to the family that built the original mill, which means the building’s second life was funded in part by the same family whose name is on it. Plant Seven now anchors Congdon Yards, a larger complex that also includes The Factory, an event center, the Stickley building, and a shared courtyard.

Capacity & Layout

The primary event space, The Loft, sits on the 4th floor of the Factory Building within Congdon Yards, and the available material does not spell out a fixed seated capacity for it, so a couple weighing this venue should confirm exact numbers directly rather than assume a round figure. What is clear is that The Loft functions as a genuine event venue rather than a converted lobby or hallway.

Beyond The Loft, Plant Seven itself houses exhibition galleries, a photography studio, retail space, and the Material ConneXion library, along with coworking areas and The Generator maker space, which holds 11 pieces of high-tech manufacturing equipment for small furniture companies. That mix means a wedding here sits inside a working creative campus rather than a building set aside purely for events.

Amenities

The Generator maker space is a genuinely unusual amenity for a wedding venue, giving the building an industrial, working-studio character that a typical converted mill space does not always keep. Eleven pieces of high-tech manufacturing equipment sit there for small furniture companies to use, a working reminder that High Point’s furniture industry is still active inside a mill that once made hosiery instead. A cafe and hospitality operation opened in 2020, following coworking space that opened at the end of 2019, so the building has layered in food and drink service alongside its creative-industry tenants over time.

Because Plant Seven sits inside the larger Congdon Yards complex, guests have access to the courtyard and other shared spaces beyond whichever room hosts the ceremony or reception, giving a wedding weekend more than one backdrop across a single historic mill footprint without leaving the property.

Location & Getting There

Plant Seven sits in downtown High Point, inside a building whose industrial bones, exposed brick, tall factory windows, open floor plans, date back more than a century, giving the location a genuine sense of place rather than a themed interior built to look old.

For sound, a converted mill building like this typically carries the hard surfaces of its industrial past, exposed brick, high ceilings, concrete or original wood floors, all of which reflect sound more than a carpeted hotel ballroom would, so a DJ setup in The Loft benefits from speaker placement that accounts for that reverberation rather than treating it like a standard flat-ceilinged banquet room.