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+1⁄2 stories on the rear facade) with rambling 1+1⁄2-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]
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| Location | 2525 Richardson Dr., Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°9′35″N 80°49′22″W / 35.15972°N 80.82278°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | c. 1925-1927 |
| Architect | Lindeberg, Harrie Thomas |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 83003970[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 28, 1983 |
The Morrison family owned the home until 1981.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Helmer, Jodi (31 May 2011). Moon Charlotte. Avalon Travel. p. 48. ISBN 1-61238-070-0.