Monroe Residential Historic District (Monroe, North Carolina) Explained

Monroe Residential Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Roughly bounded by Hough, Franklin, Jefferson, McCarten, Windsor, Sanford, Washington. Braden, Church & Hudson Sts., Monroe, North Carolina
Coordinates:34.9792°N -80.5503°W
Built:1874
Architect:Tucker, G. Marion; Wheeler & Stern
Architecture:Classical Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne
Added:January 6, 1988
Refnum:87002204

The Monroe Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses 376 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 4 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of Monroe. The district developed between about 1874 and 1940 and includes notable examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, and Classical Revival architecture styles and includes work by architects Wheeler & Stern and by G. Marion Tucker. Notable buildings include the R. V. Houston House, Houston-Redfearn House, the Belk House, J. H. Lee House, M. G. Sheppard House, Elizabeth Friedeman House (c. 1880), former Methodist Parsonage (c. 1886), Gaston Meares House, William E. Cason House, M. G. Sheppard House, and George B. McClellan House.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Allison H. and David R. Black. Monroe Downtown Historic District. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1987 . pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.