The Overcarsh House, on West Eighth Street in Fourth Ward, is a Queen Anne style built about 1880. O ne of the first impressions of Charlottetown was written by William Moultrie, boundary commissioner for North and South Carolina in 1772. Ten years later, George Washington came visiting. The architecture of Charlotte in those years had little in common with that of Charleston, Beaufort, New Bern, Bath and other sophisticated coastal towns. So they began duplicating the elaborate classical architecture of those places.
Copying is nothing new.
It goes on all the time. Many Charlotteans, newcomers and natives alike, carry a vision of local history shaped by the architecture of the city's neighborhoods, of its houses. While this may be due to the lack of identifiable center-city historic buildings, most people seem to take a more personal view of dwellings than of offices or stores. So visitors are proudly advised by city leaders to take a look at Queens Road if they want to see the real Queen City, the Charlotte whose heritage is rich and varied. The McNinch House on North Church Street was built about 1890.