Details and second floor plan, Hezekiah Alexander House, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Alexander, Hezekiah House
Item information
- Title:
- Details and second floor plan, Hezekiah Alexander House, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Plantation houses
Floor plans
Detail drawings (Drawings)
Windows
Doors
- Original Format:
- Measured drawings; scale: 1/4 in. = 1 ft, 1-1/2 in. = 1 ft..; 483mm x 661mm
- Item identifier:
- bh004903702
- Delineator:
- Warren, Gene more info on Warren, Gene
- Delineator:
- Pyron, Jim more info on Pyron, Jim
- Created Date:
- Created Date:
- Description:
- 3 of 3 | Provenance: Hezekiah Alexander (Scotch-Irish blacksmith and planter, church elder, framer of state's constitution) and Mary Sample Alexander, first owner | Architectural Note: The home was restored in the 1950s and 1970s. | Historical Note: The house is one of only two intact eighteenth century stone buildings in the state, and a rare example of a stone springhouse survives on the property. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Genre:
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Architectural drawings
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Alexander, Hezekiah House (Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Street:
- 3500 Shamrock Drive
- Community:
- Charlotte
- State:
- NC
- Zip:
- 28215
- Provenance note:
- Hezekiah Alexander (Scotch-Irish blacksmith and planter, church elder, framer of state's constitution) and Mary Sample Alexander, first owner
- Architectural note:
- The home was restored in the 1950s and 1970s.
- Historical note:
- The house is one of only two intact eighteenth century stone buildings in the state, and a rare example of a stone spring house survives on the property. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- General note:
- The house now functions as the Charlotte Museum of History.
- Subjects:
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Houses
Housing, Single family
Stone houses
- Latitude, Longitude:
- 35.234411, -80.766419