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This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations of eligibility for individual properties or districts. See instructions in Guidelines
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the requested information. If an item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, styles, materials,
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1. Name of Property
historic name Waxhaw—Weddington Roads Historic District
other names/site number
2. Location
street & number J u n c t ion NC 75, NC 84 & West Franklin Street not for publication
city, town Monroe vicinity
state North Carolina code NC county Union code 17 9 zip code 28110
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Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property
❑X private ❑ building(s) Contributing Noncontributing
❑ public -local district 18 5 buildings
❑ public -State ❑ site sites
❑ public -Federal ❑ structure 2 structures
❑ object 1 objects
Name of related multiple property listing:
State/Federal4. g.
21 5 Total
Number of contributing resources previously
listed in the National Register 0
As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this
❑ nomination ❑ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the
National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60.
In my opinion, the property ❑ meets ❑ does not meet the National Register criteria. ❑ See continuation sheet.
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In my opinion, the property ❑ meets ❑ does not meet the National Register criteria. ❑ See continuation sheet.
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1, hereby, certify that this property is:
❑ entered in the National Register.
❑ See continuation sheet.
❑ determined eligible for the National
Register. ❑ See continuation sheet.
❑ determined not eligible for the
National Register.
F-Iremoved from the National Register.
❑ other, (explain:)
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G. Function or Use
Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions)
Domestic/single dwellings Domestic/single dwellings
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Architectural Classification Materials (enter categories from instructions)
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foundation Brick
walls Weatherboard
roof S I a t e
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Describe present and historic physical appearance.
The Waxhaw-Weddington Roads Historic District is located at the division
of Waxhaw Road just west of Monroe into two arteries, North Carolina
Highways 75 and 84, respectively. In the Y of the intersection is the
Queen Anne style Heath House. To the south of the fork is the Neo-
Classical Revival style Robert B. Redwine House, and to its east the
smaller Queen Anne influenced Redwine Tenant House. Across the road on
the north side are the Late Queen Anne style Crow's Nest (the Fetnah H.
Crow House), and to its west the Prairie/Classical Revival style Edward
Crow House. Each of the houses is the center of a small complex of
outbuildings and subsidiary residences.
The larger houses sit from 100 to 150 feet back from the pavement on
rises slightly above the level of the highway, surrounded by large trees
and with spacious lawns at front. Although there is less that two
hundred yards between any of the houses, they are substantially screened
from each other by landscaping. Early documentary photographs of the
Redwine House indicate that before the current house's construction
there were few trees of any size, and today the area around the land-
scaped grounds is mostly open farmland. The line of the Seaboard Rail-
way forms a northwestern boundary to the district. As the built-up
portions of the city of Monroe extend out along the highway, commercial
and residential development is beginning to approach the eastern bounda-
ry of the district.
With the exception of Crow's Nest, the houses have generally been well -
maintained and are in good to excellent condition. Crow's Nest has
suffered from neglect and termite and water damage, but is currently
undergoing a careful rehabilitation.
Within the district are 21 contributing resources and 5 noncontributing
ones.
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Inventory List
Level of Significance Key
C=Contributing
Those properties which establish or contribute to the character of the
district, through their historical, architectural and/or cultural char-
acteristics.
NC=Noncontributing
Those properties which do not contribute to the character of the dis-
trict. They may clearly be of later construction than the district's
period of significance, or they may have been erected during the period
of significance but altered or deteriorated to such a degree that they
have lost the essential qualities which would contribute to the charac-
ter of the district.
1. Redwine Tenant House-1709 Waxhaw Road -Ca. 1907 (C)
The Redwine Tenant House sits parallel to the R. B. Redwine House on a
slight rise about 150 feet from the road, separated from the larger
house by a hedge and a row of pecan and water oak trees. Cross -shaped in
plan, the clapboarded one-story frame house has intersecting gable roofs
with the west arm being several feet lower. There is a corbelled -capped
chimney at the intersection of the gables and another astride the ridge
of the larger gable.
A hipped -roofed porch fills the northeast angle of the building, its
roof supported by turned columns that are hidden by a modern screen wire
enclosure. The rear wall of the porch is sheathed with narrow shiplap
siding. A matching porch at the rear of the house was enclosed ca. 1940
to form several rooms.
Most windows on the house are two over two, with plain surrounds. There
are two entrances from the front porch, both with partially -glazed
doors. Each of the gables has small rectangular louvers.
The interior of the house consists of four rooms, plus bath and kitchen
added in the rear porch enclosure. Window and door surrounds have
symmetrically -molded architraves with bulls -eye corner blocks, and the
doors are five -panel. Two of the rooms have Eastlake -derived mantels.
R. B. Redwine purchased the tract on which this house sits in 1897.
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the burning of their frame house and during construction of the existing
brick one. Later it served as a tenant house.
2. Ca. 1940 gable -roofed frame garage behind house. (NC)
3. Ca. 1940 shed -roofed frame shed/chicken house to rear of main house.
(NC)
4. Deteriorated ca. 1900 frame one-story garage to southeast of main
house. (NC)
5. Ca. 1930 gable -roofed frame storage building to southeast of main
house. (C)
6. Robert B. Redwine House-1711 Waxhaw Road -Ca. 1908 (C)
Set about 150 feet from the highway at the apex of a semi -circular drive
is the R. B. Redwine House. In front of the house is an open lawn,
ending in a long privet hedge at the road, while to the sides and rear
are mature trees of a variety of species, part of a planned landscape
scheme.
The house itself is a two-story, stretcher bond brick rectangle three
bays wide and four deep. Projecting from the west elevation is a two-
story, three -sided bay, and on the rear is a one-story brick kitchen
wing. At the east side is a one-story, semi -circular enclosed porch.
Centered in the front elevation is a one-story, hipped -roofed rectangu-
lar portico with triple Ionic columns at the front corners. This porch
was originally topped by a low balustrade.
Covering the house is a hipped, slate -shingled roof capped by a sheetme-
tal pan. Flanking this pan are a pair of corbelled -capped chimneys.
Over the west bay and centered in the front of the house are pedimented
gables that have tin -shingled faces. The front gable has a lunette with
tracery, while the side gable has a louvered lunette. Pairs of consoles
support the ends of the boxed cornice at the front gable.
Most of the windows in the house have rock -faced stone sills and lintels
and one over one, double -hung sash. on the second floor at the front,
the tripartite center window has diamond -patterned muntins in the upper
sash, while the first floor of the west bay has cross-muntined sash in
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has large sidelights and transoms fitted with leaded, bevelled glass in
a lozenge pattern, and having shields worked in the glass in the upper
corners.
The enclosed porch on the east elevation consists of a rectangular
section immediately next to the house, with a semi -circular end. Large
areas of glazing have been inserted between paired Tuscan columns above
a vertical tongue and groove board wainscot. Documentary photos show a
balustrade at the porch roof level which has disappeared.
On the interior, the house has a large central hall with panelled oak
wainscoting and a prominent stair. on either side are two large rooms
each. The east and front west rooms have relatively simple molded door
and window surrounds and classically -detailed mantels with glazed tile
faces around the fireplace openings. The rear west room, which extends
into the bay, was originally the dining room and has a high, panelled
oak wainscot and an oak mantel with mirrored overmantel flanked by
glass -fronted cabinets.
On the second floor, the central hall
divider. At each side of the hall is a
have relatively simple painted trim,
classical or Craftsman -style mantels,
dining room, which has an oak mantel.
is divided mid -way by a glazed
pair of bedrooms. These rooms
six horizontal panel doors and
except for the room over the
7. Two-story, gable -roofed brick building erected in 1941 as a smokel
house and utility building. Located directly behind main house.(NC) 0
8. One-story, hipped -roofed, weatherboarded frame garage, ca. 1920,
located to the southwest of the main house. (C)
9. Ca. 1900 one-story, gable -roofed frame tenant house or pair of tenant
houses which have been joined together. Located in the southwest corner
of the property. (C)
10. Ca. 1920 one-story gable -roofed frame granary with attached shed
garage adjacent to tenant houses. (C)
11. Heath House-1910 Waxhaw Highway-1897 (C)
The Heath House is located in the triangle formed by the Waxhaw and
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of mature trees which lead back to the house. A drive curves directly
in front of the building.
Two stories of frame construction, the house is in the Late Queen Anne
style. Its assymetrical massing consists of a high hipped -roofed cube
merged with a gable -roofed rectangle on the north, and with an engaged
two and a half -story octagonal tower on the southeast corner. At the
southeast corner of the house is a hipped -roofed one-story wing, and at
the rear is a gable -roofed one-story kitchen wing surrounded by one-
story porches and rooms.
The front and side elevations of the house have a one-story veranda of
widely -spaced Tuscan columns on panelled pedestals. The front steps are
covered by a projecting extension of the veranda, which also breaks out
into a semi -circle on the north side. Like the main cornice of the
house, the veranda cornice has a prominent dentil course.
Narrow novelty siding sheathes the house. The roof is of grey slate
with strips of octagon butt shingles, and the attic level wall of the
tower is also covered with octagon -butted slate. There are large,
corbelled -capped internal chimneys on the north and south sides.
Most of the house's windows are tall and narrow with one over one sash
in simple classical frames. However, the front gable has a Palladian
window in the attic, the tower has rectangular, fixed windows, and on
the north elevation is a small stained glass window high on the wall of
the projecting bay that forms the dining room.
On the interior, the first floor is organized into a series of sequen-
tial spaces opening into each other. There is a large entrance hall
with panelled wainscot, a classical mantel with an overmantel, and an
elaborate staircase that is separated from the rest of the room by a
screen of square columns topped by an elaborate spindled fringe. The
closed -string stair ascends a half -story to a stage -like landing with a
bowed face and a railing of turned balusters.
At the south side of the house are three parlors divided from each other
by sets of tall, sliding doors. All three rooms have ornate mantels,
the most distinctive of which is a classically -derived mantel in the
front room which has a high, mirrored Eastlake overmantel of mahogany
or cherry. The other two mantels are of oak. The first floor fireplaces
have tiled faces and either brass trim or cast-iron inserts. Throughout
the house are five -panel pine doors with cast brass hardware. most of
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traves that intersect in bulls -eye corner blocks.
On the north side of the house is the dining room, which extends out in
a three -sided bay. This room has a high, panelled wainscot with a plate
rail, surmounted by a small, stained glass window in the end wall. The
mantel in this room is an ornate, classical design of oak with overman-
tel cabinets fitted with leaded glass.
The second floor has an L-shaped hall with panelled and tongue and
groove beaded wainscot, off of which are three bedrooms. The bedrooms
have woodwork similar to that of the first floor, except that all three
have pine mantels with colonnettes, consoles and panelled friezes. A
pair of doors leads from the northeast bedroom, previously a study, to
the veranda roof.
12. Ca. 1897 octagonal well house. Base is'low brick wall on which are
set turned columns which support an octagonal slate roof. Located in
the allee of trees in front of the house. (C)
13. Ca. 1915 steel -framed windmill, now non-functional, located to the
southwest of the house. (C)
14. Inscribed tombstone for W. C. Heath's pet dog Jack Heath, dated
1916, located to south of main house. (C)
15. Ca. 1910 frame gable and shed -roofed frame barn located at west
property line. (C)
16. Ca. 1920 frame shed -roofed chicken house adjacent to barn. (C)
17. Ca. 1920 frame, one-story bungalow facing Highway 84 west of the
main house. Apparently Used as a tenant house. (C)
18.Edward crow House-1906 Weddington Road-1916 (C)
The Edward Crow House is located approximately 100 feet from the north
side of Weddington Road at the end of a U-shaped drive lined with mature
oak and evergreen trees. The drive and trees continue around behind the
house.
Two stories tall, and of frame construction, the main mass of the house
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hipped slate roof. The walls are sheathed with wide clapboards that are
mitered at the corners. Across the front elevation is a one-story, low
hipped -roofed porch with a low, central gable that projects slightly.
The porch roof is supported at the corners with triple square piers, and
triangular knee braces support the eaves of the porch gable. A square -
section baluster railing runs between the columns, the space above and
behind which has been enclosed with wire screening.
Centered in the front slope of the roof is a low dormer with a hipped
roof. A large interior chimney with corbelled cap is located in the
south slope of the roof, and there are tall exterior chimneys at the
north and west sides of the house with plain stacks.
Most of the house's windows have double -hung, six over one sash. on the
front elevation's second story, paired sash flank a central, multi -paned
square window bracketted with narrow strip windows.
On the east side of the house is a hipped -roofed porch which was en-
closed by the original owner to form a sunroom. The corners of the
porch are supported by square columns, between which is a panelled dado
with six over one sash above.
A two-story, gable -roofed wing projects from the center of the rear
elevation. The second level of this wing is a sleeping porch with
strips of windows on three sides and broadly -overhanging eaves. A one-
story, flat -roofed brick extension added in the 1940s, projects from the
rear of the wing. At the northwest corner of the house is a hipped -
roofed, one-story frame kitchen wing.
The interior of the Crow House is arranged around a broad central stair
hall. The stair rises in a quarter turn with landing through a quad-
rant -shaped stairwell. Pairs of two -panelled mahogany sliding doors
lead from the stair hall into the sitting rooms on either side. From
the west sitting room another pair of sliding doors leads into the
dining room. Behind the east sitting room is a small bedroom and bath
which connect to the sun porch. These principal rooms are very simply
finished, with oak strip flooring, plain board window and door surrounds
and modest classical mantels with tiled faces. The southeast sitting
room mantel is of cherry wood, and there are built-in shelves added by
the current owners. The front hall and dining room have molded chair -
rails. Crown moldings have been added to several rooms, also during the
current ownership. on the second floor are four bedrooms, all simply
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Outbuildings
19. One-story, hipped -roofed rectangular frame building directly behind
and contemporary with the main house. Now used as residence, but proba-
bly originally a combined servants quarters/garage. (C)
20. Ca. 1930 frame shed -roofed garage north of main house. (C)
21. Ca. 1920 two-story gable -roofed frame barn with shed located north
of main house. (C)
22. Ca.. 1920 one-story frame bungalow with jerkin -headed gable roof
located northwest of main house. (C)
23. Crow's Nest-1710 Waxhaw Road -Ca. 1905 (C)
The Fetnah H. Crow house is located on the north side of Waxhaw Road at
the apex of a broad circular drive lined with mature water oaks. Two
stories tall, it is a Late Queen Anne style frame dwelling with assymet-
rical massing. The central portion has a high hipped roof covered with
tin shingles. At the southwest and northeast corners are two-story,
gable -roofed rectangular bays. On the southwest corner is a two-story,
three -sided bay with a gable roof. A two and a half -story engaged
octagonal tower projects from the southeast corner of the front eleva-
tion. Extending from the rear of the house are a two-story, hipped -
roofed wing and a one-story, gable -roofed kitchen wing. A one-story, L-
shaped porch screened with lattice connects these two features. Two
large chimneys with corbelled caps pierce the roof of the main block.
Across the front elevation of the house is a one-story, hipped roofed
porch with a shallow, gable -roofed pavillion that extends over the front
steps. The main porch roof is supported by heavy turned posts, while
the front of the entrance pavillion is supported by Tuscan columns. The
porch railings are ornamented with swags formed of balls set between the
balusters.
Narrow clapboarding sheathes the house, except under the front porch,
where the wall is covered with narrow novelty siding. The plain, boxed
cornices are ornamented with dentil courses, a single row of dentils on
the porch like those of the Heath House, and alternating large and small
dentils on the main and tower cornices. The gable ends have scrollsawn
verge boards and louvers with scrollsawn panels. Small pierced brackets
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One over one double -hung windows with plain surrounds predominate. The
main entrance has a tall doorway with an ornate GD[[Ound of chamfered
pilasters and bull's-eye nocoec blocks, flanked by shorter sidelight
windows. The door itself is veneered with oak and has applied spindle
ornament.
On the interior, the first floor rooms are arranged acOUod a central
stair hall. Front and [ear GeCtiOoS Of this hall are divided by an
arched screen richly ornamented with apiodIewo[k. The front portion of
the hall has panelled wainscot, while the rear portion is wainscoted
with beaded tongue and groove boards. The stair rises in the [ear of
the hall in a half turn with landings. At the foot of the stair are two
large newel posts with applied spindle ornament, bull'8-eyeG/ and turned
finials. Door and window surrounds throughout the house have symmetri-
cally -molded architraves with bull's-eye corner blocks. The woodwork in
the ball is of pine and was originally finished with clear shellac.
Off the front hall to the left through a set of pocket doors is the
front parlor. The 0eo-Federal mantel and coved crown mold in this room
date to ca. 1930. Another set of pocket doors leads to the dining [O0m
at the rear of the west side. This room has a panelled wainscot similar
to that in the hall, but again the mantel and crown molding are ca.
I930. The three -sided west wall of the room includes a rectangular,
multi -paned pastel glass window high in the center wall. In the [ear
wing of the building are the butler's pantry and the kitchen, both
sheathed in tongue and groove boards. At the other side of the baII are
a front sitting room and a bedroom with an adjacent bath. The front
room again has a 0e0-Federal replacement mantel, while the bedroom is
substantially intact and has a simple Queen J\ooe mantel.
Upstairs, the beaded board wainscot continues in the ball. There are
two bedrooms on either side of the house with the same trim as the lower
floor, but oOoe have mantels.
outbuildings
24. Ca. I900 frame gable -roofed smoke boUa8 to which has been added ca.
I930 a shed -roofed frame garage. Located directly behind the main bOOO*,
(C)
25. Ca. I901 one-story gable -roofed frame servants quarters in fair
condition located approximately 75 feet to northeast of main house. (C)
26. Ca. 1950 brick, gable -roofed well house. (0C)

8. Statement of Significance
Certifying official has considered the significance of this properly in relation to other properties:
7 nationally Elstatewide 7 locally
Applicable National Register Criteria D A [� B T] C E] D
Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) ❑ A 17 B DC [_-] D E E F-1 F F-1 G
Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions)
Architecture
Social History_
Period of Significance
1897-1938
Cultural Affiliation
NIA
Significant Person Architect/Builder
Redwine, Robert B. Hook, Charles Christian
Tucker, G.'Marion
Significant Dates
1897 _
1916
ca. 1908
State significance of property, and justify criteria, criteria considerations, and areas and periods of significance noted above.
The Waxhaw-Weddington Roads Historic District is significant in the
history of Monroe, North Carolina, as a unique cluster of distinctive
late 19th and early 20th century suburban residences grouped around a Y-
shaped intersection of two state highways located in a semi -rural set-
ting some two miles from the county seats central core. By the end of
World War I. the grouping, sometimes referred to as "West Monroe," was
already recognized locally as a distinctive entity. The houses are
associated with several Monroe citizens who were prominent in the com-
mercial, industrial, political and judicial life of the city and county
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, the many
contributions of W. C. Heath and R. B. Redwine make the district eli-
gible for the National Register under Criterion B. It is also eligible
under Criterion C, both as containing locally outstanding and represen-
tative examples of the Queen Anne, Classical Revival and Prairie School
architectural styles and as a significant. and distinguishable grouping
of resources. Two of the houses of are particular architectural merit.
The 1897 Heath House, designed by C. C. Hook of Charlotte, is one of the
two or three best examples of the Queen Anne style in Monroe. The ca.
1908 residence of R. B. Redwine, built by local contractor. G. Marion
Tucker', is among the finer of the many Classical Revival style houses
built in Monroe between 1900 and 1910 and is unusual as the only brick
example of the style surviving from this period. The ca. 1905 Queen
Anne -style house known as Crow s Nest and the 1916 Prairie School/Clas-
sical Revival -style Ed Crow House are representative examples of those
styles. Each house stands at the center of a complex of related con-
temporary and later outbuildings and subsidiary residences on a large
home tract of four to six acres, sited well back from the roadways which
form a principal boundary for each tract. The district's period of
significance extends from, 1897 to 1938, the former being the date of
construction of the earliest surviving house in the district and the
latter year being that in which R. B. Redwine died, the last surviving
of the original owners of the houses.
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Historical Background
The location of the cluster of dwellings and outbuildings comprising the
Waxhaw-Weddington Roads Historic District reflects the proximity of the
rapidly developing county seat of Monroe with its increasing commercial
and social opportunities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
together with ready railroad access to other cities of the Piedmont and
parts north. Against this growing urban attraction was balanced a
desire to continue rural occupations in a less spatially restricting
environment than the town.(l)
The district consists of approximately 25 acres, which ' are clearly
delineated from their surroundings by the right of way of the Seaboard
Coast Line Railroad and mature hedges and stands of trees. It is an
area defined by the high architectural quality and shared design charac-
teristics of the four principal houses and by the carefully landscaped,
spacious grounds and deep setback of those houses.
The special and locally unique character of the area was recognized
in Monroe as early 1918, within two years after the last of the four
principal residences was constructed. In August of that year, the
Monroe Journal published an article under the title, "Sketches: Some
Farms and Farmers Just West of Monroe," which described the four men--R.
B. Redwine, W. C. Heath, Ed Crow and J. J. Crow --and the farms they
operated here. Also included was the farm of Jim Winchester, whose
residence is no longer in existence.(2)
Early in the article, the following physical description of the houses
and their surroundings appears,
First, it might not be amiss to point out the home of
Mr. Redwine. A structure of brick built upon a knoll,
and surrounded by a green hedge, which encloses a mul-
titude of shady trees, this home is the target for the
admiration of the thousands of eyes which gaze upon it
annually. No less imposing is the home of Capt. Heath,
which stands in the fork of the road. on the left can
be seen the handsome homes of the two Crow boys, Messrs.
J. J. and E. W. Crow . . . . (3)
The article goes on to discuss the various farming operations being
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humorous account of their good-natured competition. Noting that all five
were men who had long been actively involved in the business and profes-
sional life of Monroe, the author stated that,
By inquiry it was ascertained that none of these farmers
were city -raised, but came from the rural districts away
back. Afterwards having retired in a semi -way to the
farm there was natural ambition and intuitiveness to re-
call the old usages as practiced by their forefathers
with the desire, however, to keep apace with modern agri-
cultural methods.(4)
In playful conclusion, the article's author indicates the true nature of
the farming activities of the neighbors as mainly a hobby to animate
their lives beyond the doors of their offices and businesses, unlikely
to provide any of them with a substantial income.
Standing on an elevated site in the triangle created by the intersection
of the two highways is the Heath House, the oldest of the four principal
houses in the district. This was the residence of Osgood Pierce Heath
(1856-1916), a native of Lancaster County, South Carolina, who had
moved to Union County, North Carolina several years previously and
engaged in a number of business enterprises with his brothers A. W. and
B. D. Heath. In 1889, he moved the majority of his business activities
to Charlotte, although he maintained his association with a number of
Union County institutions into the early 20th century, serving as a
member of the Board of Directors and president of the People's Bank of
Monroe and president of the Monroe (Manetta) Cotton Mill, which he and
his brother B. D. Heath purchased in 1895. (5) Deed and census records
indicate that Heath also maintained his principal residence in Union
County until the early 20th century.
in early August 1897 Mrs.. Annie Lee Heath, wife of 0. P. Heath, pur-
chased a 24.75-acre tract of land from M. D. Myers which adjoined the
lands of, among others, R. B. Redwine and Mrs. F. C. Crow and through
which the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railway ran.(6) It was at the
eastern corner of this tract, located just west of Monroe, that the
Heaths built their impressive Queen Anne style residence. On 31 August
of that year, the Charlotte Daily observer reported that, "Architect
Hook will . . . prepare plans for the new residence of Mr. 0. P. Heath
at Monroe . . . ."(7) This reference is to prominent Charlotte archi-
tect Charles Christian Hook (1870-1938), who earlier that year had
designed a house for R. B. Redwine and had previously designed additions
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Charles Christian Hook, who was employed by the Heaths to design their
home, was a native of Wheeling, West Virginia, who moved to Charlotte
around 1890, after graduating from Washington University. During his
nearly fifty-year career as an architect, Hook, in conjunction with
several different partners, including his son Walter W. Hook, designed a
large number of important buildings in the city of Charlotte and
throughout the state. Included were Charlotte's municipal building, the
Richmond County Courthouse in Rockingham, several buildings at the
University of North Carolina and Duke University, and wings for the
state hospitals at Raleigh and Morganton.(9)
In addition, Hook was a prolific designer of houses, including many for
the Charlotte Consolidated Construction Company, developers of Dilworth,
an early streetcar suburb. It has been said that he " . . . occupied a
place of pivotal importance in the evolution of the built environment of
Charlotte Indeed, he introduced the Colonial Revival style in
this community and, consequently, established the aesthetic norms which
dominated the architecture of the affluent suburbs of Charlotte." (10)
By late 1904, O. P. Heath had moved to Charlotte, selling his house
outside Monroe to a nephew and business associate, Major W. C.
Heath.(11)
William Crow Heath (1866-1937) was also born in Lancaster County, South
Carolina, a son of Allen W. and Nannie Crow Heath.(12) Like his uncle
and father, he was active in the business life of Monroe and North
Carolina. Although his principal occupation was as an owner, officer and
long-time manager of the Monroe Cotton Mill, Union County's first entry
in the state's textile industry, Heath was also involved in numerous
other local enterprises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
These included the Monroe Oil and Fertilizer Company (organized in
1899), Heath -Lee Hardware Company (1900), the McRae Mercantile Company
(1902), of which he was president, Monroe Manufacturing Company (1903),
Icemorlee Cotton mills (1905), Houston -Heath Realty Company (1909), and
Jackson Mills (1913). He served two terms as Union County's represen-
tative to the North Carolina General Assembly and one term in the state
Senate.(13)
W. C. Heath's widow died in 1944, but the house remained in family
ownership and occupancy until 1975. In the latter year, the executor of
the estate of Mary Heath McMullan (1897-1974), Major Heath's younger
daughter, sold the property to John L. LaMarre. Mary McMullan had
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had continued to live in the house after her parents' deaths.(14) Since
1975, the house has had several owners, most of whom have undertaken
efforts to restore it, a time-consuming and still incomplete pro-
cess.(15)
The second oldest house in the district is Crow's Nest, a handsome late
example of the Queen Anne style built early in the 20th century by
Fetnah Heath Crow, the widow of William Crow. Master millwright William
Crow (d. 1884), a native of Lincoln County, North Carolina, lived with
his family in the Waxhaw area just east of the Union County border with
Lancaster County, South Carolina.(16) Although Crow's second wife
Fetnah Heath (1836-1909) was born in Union County, her father was one of
a large family of Heaths who migrated from Lancaster to Union county in
the mid to late 19th century.(17)
Crow owned several tracts of land in Union County, one of which he
deeded to his wife in 1883.(18) After her husband's death the following
year, Mrs. Crow is said to have moved her family (consisting of three
surviving sons, John J., Robert D. and Edward W., and a widowed step-
daughter, Maggie Sturdivant) to this property, which was located west of
the town of Monroe on the waters of Bearskin Creek. (19) The house
which they occupied apparently burned shortly after the turn of the
century, and Crow's Nest was erected to replace it.(20) Neither the
builder nor an architect has been identified for the house; however, in
style, form and a number of design features, it is similar to the nearby
Heath House, which predates it by several years.
The oldest of Mrs. Crow's surviving sons, John J., lived with his family
on Franklin Street in Monroe, while the two younger sons remained at
Crow's Nest with their mother.(21) Shortly after their move from Waxhaw
to the outskirts of Monroe, the three brothers formed a business under
the name of Crow Brothers. The mercantile firm was multifaceted, as the
brothers acted as cotton buyers and handled commercial fertilizers and
farm supplies.(22) The firm was dissolved in 1920, although John and
Robert Crow continued to operate a grocery business on Main Street in
Monroe.(23) In addition to their mercantile operations, the three Crow
brothers, both individually and through the firm, participated in a
variety of local enterprises. Many of these were the same as those
involving their neighbors, W. C. Heath and R. B. Redwine, including the
Monroe oil and Fertilizer Company, Monroe Manufacturing Company, the
Waxhaw Telephone Company (1903), Icemorlee Cotton Mills, and Houston -
Heath Realty Company.(24)
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was occupied in that year by her sons R. D. and Ed Crow, the latter of
whom had been married in 1908 to Mary Hanes of Mocksville, North Caro-
lina.(25) In 1915, the brothers divided their mother's estate, with John
J. Crow receiving two tracts of land, including the Crow®s Nest pro-
perty.(26) John J. Crow (1863-1942), mayor of Monroe several years
previously, moved his family to Crow®s Nest; his daughters continued to
occupy the house after his death, Adeline until her death in 1976, and
Mary until about two years before she died in 1984.(27)
The third major house in the district is said to have been built between
1908 and 1910 for Judge R. B. Redwine, following a fire which had
destroyed an earlier frame dwelling on the same site. Redwine had
acquired property in this location in the mid 1890s, building on the
site in 1897 to designs provided by C. C. Hook of Charlotte. An early
20th century photograph shows the earlier house to have been a typical
late Victorian farmhouse.(28) While the new and substantial brick
residence was under construction by local contractor G. Marion Tucker,
the Redwines lived in a small frame house to the east of the main house
site; this building survives as rental property.(29)
Robert B. Redwine (1860-1938) was a native of Union County, a son of Dr.
T. W. Redwine. He was licensed as an attorney in 1889, beginning his
practice in Monroe in 1891. At various times, he formed partnerships
with other Union County legal luminaries, including D. A. Covington,
Judge A. M. Stack, and John C. Sikes. During the gubernatorial term of
Angus W. McLean (1925-29), he was appointed as a superior court judge.
(30)
Redwine served his community and state in many capacities, including
chairman of the county commissioners, the county board of education and
the county board of exemptions during World War I, in the state General
Assembly and Senate, and on the board of trustees of the University of
North Carolina for 32 years. At the time of his death, he was president
of the Union County Bar Association and was known as the "dean of the
Monroe bar."(31)
In 1895, Redwine was married to Sallie McAlister of Anson County, who
survived him by little more than one year.(32) When Redwine was declared
bankrupt in 1927, most of the farmland that he owned at the time was
sold so that he and his wife could buy back their residence, which they
later deeded to two of their daughters. The latter sold the house after
their parents' deaths to another Monroe attorney, Oscar L. Richard-
son.(33) Richardson's widow sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. James H Belk
in 1967; it was acquired in 1986 by Dr. and Mrs. Virgilio S. Ipapo,

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although the Belks retained ownership of the small frame rental
house.(34)
In the division of the Crow estate, Ed Crow (1870-1930) received two
tracts, one of which was between Crow's Nest and the right of way of the
Seaboard Coastline Railway® The 23 November 1915 issue of the Monroe
Journal reported that Crow was ® . . securing lumber now with which to
begin building a nice residence ® . next spring."(35) After complet-
ing his large Prairie/Classical Revival style house, Ed Crow was occu-
pied principally with farming at his suburban residence until his
death.(36) His widow and children sold the property in 1933 to S. H.
and Seelye Adams. During World War II, Mr. and Mrs Adams divided the
house into apartments which were rented to soldiers stationed at nearby
Camp Sutton. S. H. Adams died in 1946, but his wife remained in the
house for nearly twenty years after his death. In 1965, it was acquired
by the current owners, Dr. and Mrs® John W. Hearn, Jr.; the Hearns
returned the house to a single-family residence and continue to occupy
it today.(37)
A survey of Monroe's historic architecture was conducted in 1978, during
which nearly 250 of the community's most significant historic architec-
tural resources were identified. Reflecting the city's development from
1844 to 1978, the buildings recorded included more than 150 late nine-
teenth and early twentieth century houses, with a significant collection
of large Classical Revival residences. The four houses in the Waxhaw-
Weddington Roads Historic District were among about fifteen percent of
the buildings selected for intensive recording, and one, the Heath
House, has been accorded local designation by the Monroe/Union Historic
Properties Commission (1985). Approximately 130 of the buildings shown
in the publication resulting from the survey have been included in the
Monroe Residential Historic District® Two other suburban Monroe houses
have been nominated to the National Register --the John C. Sikes House
(listed in 1978) and the K. Lee House (nominated in 1987). Architec-
turally and historically, two of the four principal houses Waxhaw-
Weddington Roads Historic District --the Heath House and the R. B. Red-
wine House --are comparable with the pivotal houses in the Monroe Resi-
dential Historic District and the two individually nominated houses.
The other two are comparable with the best of the contributing houses in
the Monroe Residential Historic District. Their significance as a group
is especially outstanding.
Ownership of the properties in the district has remained relatively
stable since their construction, with two remaining in the same families
until the 1970s and 1980s, with the result that the houses and the

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tracts of land on which they stand survive with a high degree of inte-
grity and an unusual lack of intrusive elements. Since the mid 1970s,
several different owners of the Heath House have undertaken efforts to
restore it, and the current owner of Crow 0 s Nest is working to repair
damage caused by neglect. The Redwine House and the Ed Crow House
remain in good condition, having been continuously occupied and main-
tained to the present.
FOOT07411 no
(1). Sydney Nathans, The Quest for Progress: The Way We Lived in
North Carolina, 1870-1920 (Chapef-HI-11:_ University of North Carolina
Press, 1983), p. 1.
(2) "Sketches: Some Farms and Farmers Just West of Monroe," (Mon-
roe) Journal, 6 August 1918, p. 8.
( 3 ) Ibid.
(5) Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas
of the Nineteen Century, vol. II (Madison, Wis.: Brant & Fuller, 1892),
p- 485; Marjorie W. Young, ed., Textile Leaders of the South (Anderson,
S. C.: James R. Young, 1963), p. 93; Stack & Beasley, Sketches of Monroe
and Union County (Charlotte: News and Times Print, 1902), pp. 81, 87-88;
91; and United States Census, Lancaster County, South Carolina, 1850,
population schedule.
(6) Union County Register of Deeds (hereinafter cited as UCRD),
deed book 27, p. 66.
(7) "New Buildings," Charlotte Daily observer, 31 August 1897, p.
6.
(8) "Queen city Improvements," Char - lotte Daily observer, 8 Septem-
ber 1894, p. 4; and "Architect Hook Busy," Charlotte Dail
y observer, 6
May 1897, p. 6.
(9) "C. C. Hook Is Killed in 120-Foot Fall Here," Charlotte News,
17 September 1938, p. 1.
(10) Charlotte/Mecklenburg Historic Properties Commission, survey

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and Research Report on the Charlotte City Hall, 1982.
(11) UCRD, deed book 37, p. 487.
(12) "Death Takes Major Heath." Monroe Enquirer, 8 February 1937,
ji. 1; and UCRD, Record of Corporations, Vol. A, pp. 21, 40, 49, 66. 84,
127, 134, 225, and Vol. II, p. 48.
(13) "Death Takes Major Heath."
(14) UCRD, Death Certificates, book 57, p. 201; and UCRD, deed book
250, p. 274 and deed book 273, p. 806.
(15) UCRD, deed book 312, p. 241, deed book 349, pp. 131 and 134,
and deed book 411, p. 448; and Fred H. Beck, 1910 Waxhaw Highway,
Monroe, North Carolina, Allison and David Black interview, 9 January
1987.
(16) United States Census, Union County, North Carolina, 1850, 1860
and 1870, population schedules; North Carolina Division of Archives and
History, WPA Graves Index; and "Last Rites Held For Three Prominent
Men," Monroe Enquirer, 10 August 1942, p. 1.
(17) United States Census, Union County, North Carolina, 1850,
population schedule; and "The Death Record," Charlotte Daily observer, 2
September 1909, p. 7.
(18) UCRD, deed book 17, p. 410.
(19) "The Death Record;" United States Census, Union County, North
Carolina, 1880, population schedule; and UCRD, deed book 17, p. 410.
(20) Albert Esposito, 1710 Waxhaw Road, Monroe, North Carolina,
Allison and David Black.interview, 9 January 1987.
(21) UCRD, Marriage Register; United States Census, Union County,
North Carolina, 1900 and 1910, population schedules.
(22) Stack & Beasley, Sketches, p. 93; "Last Rites Held;" and
"Final Rites Tuesday for Robert D. Crow," Monroe Enquirer, 31 May 1954,
P. 1.
(23) UCRD, deed book 56, p. 585; and Monroe City Directory, 1922-
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(24) UCRD, Record of corporations, Vol. A, pp. 40, 84, 87, 134, 225
and 234.
(25) "Edward W. Crow Dies At Mocksville Home," Monroe Enquirer, 26
May 1930; United States Census, Union County, North Carolina, 1910,
population schedule; and Davie County Register of Deeds, Marriage Regi-
ster.
(26) UCRD, deed book 55, p. 299.
(27) Monroe Cemetery, Crow Family tombstones; and Esposito inter-
view.
(28) "Architect Hook Busy;" and James H. and Marianne Belk, Monroe,
North Carolina, Allison and David Black interview, 9 January 1987.
(29) Mary Ann Lee, ' An inventory of Historic Architecture (Monroe:
City of Monroe, 1978), p. 83; and Belk interview.
(30) "Judge Redwine Dies at Home," Monroe Enquirer, 15 September
1938, p. 1.
(31) Ibid.; Stack & Beasley, Sketches, pp. 68-69; and UCRD, Death
Certificates. book 23, p. 236.
(32) Stack & Beasley, Sketches, p. 69; and UCRD, Death Certificates,
book 24, p. 314.
( 33) UCRD, deed book 65, pp. 444, 449 and 454; deed book 72, p. 24;
deed book 93, p. 86; deed book 82, pp. 511 and 512; and Belk interview.
(34) UCRD, deed book 211, p. 265 and deed book 408, p. 233.
(35) UCRD, deed book 53, p. 406; and "Sketches: Some Farms;" "Edward
W. Crow Dies;" and "Local and Personal," Monroe Journal, 23 November
1915, p. 5.
(37) John W. and Betty S. Hearn, 1906 Weddington Road, Monroe, North
Carolina, Allison and David Black interview, 9 January 1987; and UCRD,
deed book 199, p. 337.

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Verbal Boundary Description
The boundaries of the district are indicated by the dashed line marked on the
accompanying Monroe planimetric map, drawn at a scale of 1"=200', with
dimensions drawn from Union County Tax Maps #9-313 and 9-274.
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The boundaries of the district are drawn to reflect the current property lines
around each of the houses, which in turn correspond to the home tracts for the
residences making up the district.
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organization Black & Black Preservation Consultants date 6/30Z87
street & number 620 Wills Forest Street telephone [phone]
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Beck, Fred H. 1910 Waxhaw Highway, Monroe, North Carolina. Allison and
David Black interview, 9 January 1987.
Belk, James H and Marianne. Monroe, North Carolina. Allison and David
Black interview, 9 January 1987.
"C. C. Hook Is Killed in 120-Foot Fall Here." Charlotte News, 17 Sep-
tember 1938, p. 1.
Charlotte -Mecklenburg Historic Properties Commission. Designation Re-
port, Charlotte City Hall, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1982. Copy
in Survey Files, Survey and Planning Branch, N. C. Division of
Archives and History, Raleigh, N. C.
Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative men of the Carolinas of the
Nineteenth Century, vol. II. Madison, Wises 'Brant Fuller, 1892.
Davie County Register of Deeds office. Marriage Register.
"Death Takes Major Heath." Monroe Enquirer, 8 February 1937, p. 1.
"Edward W. Crow Dies At Mocksville Home." Monroe Enquirer, 26 may 1930,
P. 1.
Esposito, Albert. 1710 Waxhaw Road, Monroe, North Carolina. Allison
and David Black interview, 9 January 1987.
"Final Rites Tuesday for Robert D. Crow." Monroe (N.C.) Enquirer, 31
May 1954, p. 1.
Hearn, John W., Jr., and Betty S. 1906 Weddington Road, Monroe, North
Carolina. Allison and David Black interview, 9 January 1987.
"Judge Redwine Dies at Home." Monroe Enquirer, 15 September 1938, p. 1.
"Last Rites Held For Three Prominent men." Monroe Enquirer, 10 August
1942, p. 1.
Lee, Mary Ann. An Inventory of Historic Architecture. (Monroe® City of
Monroe, 1978.

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Monroe Cemetery. Crow and Heath families tombstones.
monroe-Union Historic Properties Commission. Designation Report for 0.
P. Heath House, Monroe, North Carolina, 1985. Copy in Survey
Files, survey and Planning Branch, N. C. Division of Archives and
History, Raleigh,
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Carolina, 1870:1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1983.
National, Cyclopedia of American Biography, The, vol. XLIX. New
York: James T. White T Company, 1966.
North Carolina Division of Archives and History. WPA Graves Index.
"0. P. Heath Killed Himself Yesterday." Monroe (N.C.) Journal, 29,
February, 1916, p. 1.
"Sketches: Some Farms and Farmers Just West of Monroe." Monroe Journal,
6 August 1918, p. 8.
Stack, Amos and Beasley, George. sketches of Monroe and Union County
Charlotte: News and Times Print, 1902.
"The Death Record." Charlotte Daily observer, 2 September 1906, p. 7.
Union County Register Of Deeds office. Deed records, Vital Statistics —
Births and Deaths, Death Certificates and Marriage Register.
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1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910. Lancaster County, S. C., 1850, 1860,
1870.
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James R. Young, 1963.