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Morrocroft

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Built
  
c. 1925 (1925)-1927

Area
  
8,000 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
83003970

Added to NRHP
  
28 November 1983

Morrocroft

Location
  
2525 Richardson Dr., Charlotte, North Carolina

Architectural styles
  
Colonial Revival architecture, Tudor Revival architecture

Similar
  
Quail Hollow Club, SouthPark Mall, Hearst Tower, US National Whitewat, Billy Graham Library

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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).

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

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References

Morrocroft Wikipedia