Morrocroft

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Morrocroft
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Location2525 Richardson Dr., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°9′35″N80°49′22″W / 35.15972°N 80.82278°W / 35.15972; -80.82278
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Builtc. 1925 (1925)-1927
ArchitectLindeberg, Harrie Thomas
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No. 83003970 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 28, 1983

Morrocroft is a historic home located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Harrie T. Lindeberg and built between 1925 and 1927. It is a Colonial Revival/Tudor Revival-style brick manor house. It consists of a main two story block (2+12 stories on the rear facade) with rambling 1+12-story side wings. It is characterized by picturesque massing, rhythmic spacing of mullioned, multipaned grouped windows, and numerous multi-stack chimneys rising from steeply pitched gable roofs. It was built by North Carolina Governor and Congressman Cameron A. Morrison and his second wife, Sara Ecker Watts Morrison. [2] After Morrison's death in 1953, the house passed to his daughter, Angelia Lawrance Morrison Harris. [3]

The Morrison family owned the home until 1981. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [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. Davyd Foard Hood; Carolina Mesrobian; Dan L. Morrill; Jerry Cross & Michael Hill (June 1983). "Morrocroft" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
  3. Ham, Marie Sharpe; Blake, Debra A.; Morris, C. Edwards (2000). North Carolina's First Ladies 1891-2001, Who Have Resided in the Executive Mansion At 200 North Blount Street. Raleigh, North Carolina: The North Carolina Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee and the North Carolina Executive Mansion Fund, Inc. pp. 31–33. ISBN   0-86526-294-2.
  4. Helmer, Jodi (31 May 2011). Moon Charlotte. Avalon Travel. p. 48. ISBN   1-61238-070-0.