Morrocroft is a historic home located at

Charlotte Charlotte ( ) is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont (United States), Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Meckl ...

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. It was designed by architect

Harrie T. Lindeberg Harrie Thomas Lindeberg (1879 – January 10, 1959) was an American architect, best known for designing country houses in the United States. Among academic eclectic architects Lindeberg found a niche as "the American Lutyens" by working in a vari ...

and built between 1925 and 1927. It is a

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architectur ...

style brick manor house. It consists of a main two story block ( stories on the rear facade) with rambling -story side wings. It is characterized by picturesque massing, rhythmic 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). The Morrison family owned the home until 1981. It was listed on the

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in 1983.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1927 Houses in Charlotte, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina {{MecklenburgCountyNC-NRHP-stub