Liddell-McNinch House

Liddell-McNinch House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Liddell-McNinch House, November 2009
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Location	511 N. Church St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°13′53″N80°50′23″W / 35.23139°N 80.83972°W / 35.23139; -80.83972
Area	less than one acre
Built	1891–1893 (1893)
Architectural style	Shingle Style, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	76001330 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 12, 1976

Liddell-McNinch House is a historic home located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built between 1891 and 1893, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne / Shingle Style frame dwelling. The house has a highly complex roofline of projections, gables, porches, and spreading eaves, and wall surfaces of weatherboards, shingles, broken planes, swells, and cavities. It features a wraparound porch and a recessed porch on the second level. President William Howard Taft visited the McNinch House in 1909. ^[2]

The house is named for two of its previous owners, Vinton Liddell, and Charlotte mayor Samuel S. McNinch. ^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Mary Alice Hinson; H. McKelden Smith; Patsy B. Kinsey (n.d.). "Liddell-McNinch House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
3. Kratt, Mary Norton (1992). Charlotte, Spirit of the New South. John F. Blair, Publisher. p. 122. ISBN   978-0-89587-095-7.