Morrocroft

Morrocroft is a historic home located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Harrie T. Lindeberg and built between 1925 and 1927. It is a Colonial Revival/Tudor Revival-style brick manor house. It consists of a main two story block (2+1⁄2 stories on the rear facade) with rambling 1+1⁄2-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 and his second wife, Sara Ecker Watts Morrison.^[2] After Morrison's death in 1953, the house passed to his daughter, Angelia Lawrance Morrison Harris.^[3]

Morrocroft
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2525 Richardson Dr., Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°9′35″N 80°49′22″W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	c. 1925 (1925)-1927
Architect	Lindeberg, Harrie Thomas
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP reference No.	83003970[1]
Added to NRHP	November 28, 1983

The Morrison family owned the home until 1981.^[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]