Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1926/00/00 | Louis D Sutherland | Architect | County attorney, John C Sikes, hires his good friend, Louis D Sutherland, a Charlotte architect working for the firm of C C Hook, to draw the plans for his "dream house." | |||
1926/05/17 | Tucker,G. M. | Architect | Sikes hires G M Tucker of Monroe to construct the house for $35,000. L E Markham is given the plumbing and heating contract, and another $10,0000 is to be spent on landscaping, which is to include tennis courts and Japanese gardens with lights. | |||
1927/06/00 | John C Sikes | Home | The Sikes family move into their newly completed mansion. The road along the side of the property was renamed for the architect, Mr Sutherland, from Chain Gang Road. | |||
1929/06/20 | Extensive use is made of the third floor ballroom and the gardens for entertaining during the wedding of Margaret Dixon Sikes, the oldest daughter, to Caldwell Johnston. | |||||
1973/00/00 | Henry Hall Wilson | Home | John C Sikes' great-nephew, Henry Hall Wilson, acquires the John C Sikes House. |
Particulars for John C Sikes House: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Commerce |
Historic Use | Multiple dwelling |
Architectural Style | Neoclassical |
Criteria | Person |
Area of Significance | Politics-government |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Secondary structure |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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