Shelby is a city in and the county seat of Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. It lies near the western edge of the Charlotte combined statistical area. The population was 20,323 at the 2010 census. Shelby is located in between Charlotte and Asheville, and has become a noted tourism and wedding destination in Western North Carolina.
Oliver Max Gardner was an American politician who served as the 57th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Democratic Party, Gardner worked in the administrations of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
Gaither House is a historic home located near Harmony, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, three bay by three bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and features a hipped roof entrance portico with fluted Doric order columns.
Swan Ponds is a historic plantation house located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three bay, brick mansion with a low hip roof in the Greek Revival style. It features a one-story low hip-roof porch with bracketed eaves, a low pedimented central pavilion, and square columns. Swan Ponds plantation was the home of Waightstill Avery (1741–1821), an early American lawyer and soldier. His son Isaac Thomas Avery built the present Swan Ponds dwelling. Swan Ponds was the birthplace of North Carolina politician and lawyer William Waightstill Avery (1816–1864), Clarke Moulton Avery owner of Magnolia Place, and Confederate States Army officer Isaac E. Avery (1828–1863).
Historic Cleveland County Courthouse is a courthouse building located at Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina.
Joshua Beam House is a historic home located near Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1845, and is a two-story, gable-roofed frame dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a one-story rear kitchen ell. The front facade features a two-story pedimented porch with an intervening second floor balcony.
The James Heyward Hull House is a historic home located at Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was built about 1874, and extensively remodeled in 1907. The remodeling added the Classical Revival style semi-elliptical monumental portico with fluted Corinthian order columns and pilasters. It is a two-story, square-in-plan main block with a central hall, triple pile floor plan and a hip roof. A two-story rear wing was added in the 1940s.
Joseph Suttle House, also known as Twin Chimneys, is a historic home located near Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was built between 1820 and 1847, and is a two-story, three bay, gable-roofed frame dwelling with Federal style design elements. It features two stuccoed, smooth shouldered exterior chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse and family cemetery.
Central Shelby Historic District is a national historic district located at Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina. It encompasses 229 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Shelby. The district is centered on the Cleveland County Courthouse (1907) and public square, established in 1841. The district includes representative examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman architectural styles. The district includes the separately listed courthouse, Masonic Temple Building, and Webbley. Other notable buildings include the Webb House, Wells House, Fulenwider-Ebeltoft House, Dr. S. S. Royster House, Bateman House, Washburn Block, city hall and firehouse (1911), Royster Building (1910), First Baptist Church, Ascension Lutheran Church (1932), and Southern Railway Freight Depot.
Frank H. Stedman House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925, and consists of a two-story, five bay, main block with a hip roof and projecting one-story, flat-roofed wings that form a "U"-shape. It is sheathed in stucco and is in the Italian Renaissance style. The front facade features an arcade supported by two Corinthian order columns. Also on the property is a contributing garage apartment.
Westlawn is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1858, and is a two-story, five bay, frame dwelling with a double-pile center-hall plan in the Greek Revival style. It features a one-story, hip roofed porch supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property is a contributing hip roofed smokehouse with cupola.
Scarborough House is a historic home located in the Hayti neighborhood of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1916, and consists of a cubical two-story, two-room-deep hip roofed main block, with a two-story hip-roofed rear ell. It features a Neoclassical style, two-story flat-roofed portico on paired Doric order columns. It was built by prosperous African-American funeral home owner J. C. Scarborourgh and his wife Daisy and many of the materials used for the house were salvaged by Scarborough from the 1880s Queen Anne Style Frank L. Fuller House which formerly stood in the 300 block of E. Main St.
Mary Mills Coxe House is a historic home located near Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina. Built about 1911, the house is a 2 1/2-story, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling with a pebbledash finish. It has a two-level side-gabled roof, a pedimented front dormer, and a rear gable ell. It features a one-story hip-roofed wraparound porch and porte-cochère. Also on the property is a non-contributing art studio building associated with the Flat Rock School of Art. In 1993 and 1994, the house was renovated for use as offices.
Holland–Summers House was a historic home located near Harmony, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1850, and is a two-story, five bay, "L"-shaped Greek Revival style brick dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and the front facade features a colonnade of white cement Doric order pilasters. Also on the property is a contributing heavy timber frame smokehouse.
Morrison–Campbell House is a historic home located near Harmony, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Late Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a shallow gable roof, exterior brick end chimneys, and a one-story hip roofed front facade porch. Also on the property is a contributing log smokehouse built in 1880.
Henry Eccles House is a historic home located at Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1861, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, frame Greek Revival style dwelling. It has a low hipped roof, one-story rear addition, and two interior brick chimneys. Also on the property is a contributing log barn.
John Price Carr House is a historic home located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1904, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a high hipped roof, four-stage projecting tower, and wraparound porch.
William H. Long House is a historic home located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was built in 1917–1918, and is a two-story, brick veneer dwelling with Classical Revival style design elements. It a hipped roof intersected by gable roofed wings on the back and sides. It features a monumental pedimented portico and porte cochere supported by paired Tuscan order columns. It was built by William Henry Long (1866–1920), who served as mayor of Greenville from 1901 to 1903. It was renovated about 1980 to house law offices.
Tyrrell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Columbia, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick building with a hipped roof. It has gabled, parapetted wall dormers; windows with segmental and round arches; and flat roof porch supported by paired columns dated to the 1970s.
James Landrum Webb was an American politician and jurist.
