Hezekiah Alexander House

The Alexander Rock House in Charlotte was finished in 1774 and is the oldest house in Mecklenburg County. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Its Georgian stone style is the one built by Germans who settled in Pennsylvania and by the Dutch in the Hudson Valley, and Germans moving south carried it to North Carolina. Few examples remain.

Hezekiah Alexander bought more than 600 acres on Sugar Creek in 1767. He worked as a blacksmith and a farmer, sat in the Fifth Provincial Congress, which wrote North Carolina’s first constitution, and served as a trustee of Queens College.

The house left the Alexander family in 1828 and went through many hands over the next century. One owner renovated it several times, adding a large front porch and replacing the flooring on the ground level. In 1928 the estate of its last private owners put it up for sale.

In 1943 it was donated to a Methodist conference that planned a retirement community on the site. In 1949 members of the Daughters of the American Revolution leased the house to preserve and restore it, and a foundation formed in 1969 to manage and fund further work. The Charlotte Museum of History became independent in 1986 and maintains the Rock House today.