Monroe Residential Historic District (Monroe, North Carolina)

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.^[2]

Monroe Residential Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
James H. Lee House, built in 1912
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Location	Roughly bounded by Hough, Franklin, Jefferson, McCarten, Windsor, Sanford, Washington. Braden, Church & Hudson Sts., Monroe, North Carolina
Coordinates	34°58′45″N 80°33′01″W / 34.97917°N 80.55028°W / 34.97917; -80.55028
Area	181 acres (73 ha)
Built	1874
Architect	Tucker, G. Marion; Wheeler & Stern
Architectural style	Classical Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	87002204^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 6, 1988

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Allison H. and David R. Black (June 1987). "Monroe Downtown Historic District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.

External links

• Description of the Monroe Residential Historic District