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Bishop John C. Kilgo House

Bishop John C. Kilgo House: Colonial Revival, built 1914, National Register listed 2009-01-22.

Pale blue and white four-square house with a columned entrance porch, dormer window and two red brick chimneys, with flower beds in front.
Bishop John C. Kilgo House. RoxylovesHistory · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Address2100 The Plaza, Charlotte
Architectural styleColonial Revival
Year recorded1914
National Registerref 08001364, listed 2009-01-22
Research depthdossier, independently sourced

What we established, and from where

  • The 1915 house is attributed to Charlotte architect Louis H. Asbury.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • Kilgo was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • Before Charlotte, Kilgo was president of Trinity College in Durham, later Duke University, from 1894 to 1910.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • The nomination records that Booker T. Washington gave his first speech at a white college in the South at Trinity.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • The house served as a boarding house for several decades into the 1980s and as cooperative housing in the late 1990s.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

The primary source

The National Register nomination is the fullest account of this property that exists, written by a researcher and reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Office. The nomination (National Park Service).

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