Title	Hugh Torance [sic] House and Store
Subject	Torrance, Hugh, 1743-1816--Homes and haunts Torrance, James, 1784-1847--Homes and haunts Historic buildings--North Carolina--Huntersville
Subject Personal	Torrance, Hugh, 1743-1816 Torrance, James, 1784-1847
Description	Hugh Torrance House and Store (circa 1779) [Illustration by Jack Boyte (’88)] The oldest standing store building in North Carolina, the Hugh Torrance House and Store is one of Mecklenburg's few remaining 18th century structures. Built by a local merchant and planter, Hugh Torrance, the log portion of the house was built c. 1779 with a storehouse addition c. 1787 and a Federal addition c. 1805. Torrance's son, James operated a store at this site from 1805-1825. It is located on Gilead Road in Huntersville, NC.
Object Type	Still Image
Subject - Location	Huntersville (N.C.) Mecklenburg County (N.C.)
Date of material	1988
Publisher	Charlotte, N.C.: J. Murrey Atkins Library University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Genre	Picture postcards
Format	image/tiff
Identifier	mb121_5_1_159f
Source	Mary Boyer Collection. J. Murrey Atkins Library University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Relation	Forms part of: Mary Boyer Collection, 1899 - 1979
Language	eng
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