{"nrhp_refnum":"99000670","name":"McNinch, Frank Ramsay, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2727 Sharon Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.16101382700003,"lon":-80.81906294899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A white-frame Colonial Revival house on a tree-shaded rise of about three acres overlooking Sharon Lane, roughly five miles south of downtown Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built ca. 1925 and has a detached servant's quarters/garage of the same date.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with Frank Ramsay McNinch, a Charlotte mayor who helped resolve the 1919 streetcar strike and later held federal posts including chairman of the Federal Power Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. It is described as Charlotte's only surviving building directly associated with him. The house retains its key architectural elements despite alterations.","narrative":"Built ca. 1925 on a wooded rise south of Charlotte, the white-frame house follows the Colonial Revival style, with a side-gable roof, a two-story full-facade porch on square Tuscan piers, and a center-hall plan. The design draws on Mount Vernon, a model popular after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The house was built for Frank Ramsay McNinch and his wife Huldah, and the contractor was Thies-Smith Realty. McNinch was mayor of Charlotte from 1917 to 1921. During the 1919 streetcar strike, the most violent labor dispute in the city's history, he organized a reconciliation committee and authorized citizen police to restore order. He later served on the Federal Power Commission under Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, represented the United States at the 1935 World Power Conference, and chaired the Federal Communications Commission from 1937 to 1939. The family lived in the house year-round until 1930 and kept it until 1943. Its interior retains original doors, oak floors, and plaster walls, and the servant's quarters/garage is also considered a contributing resource.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1925-1943","architect_builder":"Thies-Smith Realty (contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Restored and renovated by a recent owner; shutters temporarily removed for restoration and painting at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.697918-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/92/7213/47721392/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000670.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721392","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ramsay_McNinch_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19987069"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/mcninch-frank-ramsay-house-99000670/"}