Morrocroft

Morrocroft
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location	2525 Richardson Dr., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°9′35″N 80°49′22″W / 35.15972°N 80.82278°W / 35.15972; -80.82278Coordinates: 35°9′35″N 80°49′22″W / 35.15972°N 80.82278°W / 35.15972; -80.82278
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	c. 1925 (1925)-1927
Architect	Lindeberg, Harrie Thomas
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP Reference #	83003970^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 28, 1983

Morrocroft is a historic home located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted 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, rhymthmic 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 (1869-1953).^[2]

The Morrison family owned the home until 1981.^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Davyd Foard Hood, Carolina Mesrobian, Dan L. Morrill, Jerry Cross, and Michael Hill (June 1983). "Morrocroft" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
↑ Helmer, Jodi (31 May 2011). Moon Charlotte. Avalon Travel. p. 48. ISBN 1-61238-070-0.

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