Liddell-McNinch House

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Liddell-McNinch House
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Liddell-McNinch House, November 2009
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Location511 N. Church St., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°13′53″N80°50′23″W / 35.23139°N 80.83972°W / 35.23139; -80.83972 Coordinates: 35°13′53″N80°50′23″W / 35.23139°N 80.83972°W / 35.23139; -80.83972
Arealess than one acre
Built1891–1893 (1893)
Architectural styleShingle Style, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No. 76001330 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 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+12-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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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 2015-02-01.
  3. Kratt, Mary Norton (1992). Charlotte, Spirit of the New South. John F. Blair, Publisher. p. 122. ISBN   978-0-89587-095-7.