{"nrhp_refnum":"90001314","name":"Addison Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"831 E. Morehead St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.214069763000055,"lon":-80.84454561599995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-08-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A nine-story steel-framed apartment building at 831 East Morehead Street in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, erected in 1926 and designed by architect Willard G. Rogers.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it was Charlotte's tallest, largest and most architecturally sophisticated apartment building of the 1920s, and one of the city's finest surviving early twentieth-century highrises. Its scale, materials and Neo-Classical Revival treatment echo the downtown office skyscrapers of the era. It is also tied to architect Willard G. Rogers and the J. A. Jones Construction Company, both prominent in the city's 1920s building boom.","narrative":"Rising nine stories at the corner of East Morehead and McDowell streets in Charlotte's Dilworth neighborhood, the Addison Apartments was completed in 1926 as the city's grandest apartment building. Architect Willard G. Rogers designed it, and the J. A. Jones Construction Company built it for about $500,000. A steel frame carries curtain walls of light wire-cut brick and cast stone, arranged in the classical base, shaft and capital pattern. A two-story columned portico marks the entrance, and a stepped pediment caps the central section. Inside, the marble-veneered lobby remains the centerpiece. The original 64 suites were later expanded and subdivided, and 77 units exist today. When new, the building offered residents room service, a dining room, a beauty parlor and garages. It was listed for its architecture, as one of Charlotte's finest steel-framed Neo-Classical Revival highrises of the 1920s and a close counterpart to the downtown office skyscrapers of the period.","period_of_significance":"1926","architect_builder":"Rogers, Willard G. (architect); Jones, J. A. (contractor)","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as multiple dwellings; the building holds 77 units today, after the original 64 units were expanded to 90 in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.372223-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/7212/47721264/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/90001314.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001314/bacd08b4ac-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001314/bacd08b4ac-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Addison_Apartments.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Addison_Apartments.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721264","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460103"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/addison-apartments-90001314/"}