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Dr. Walter Pharr Craven House

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Dr. Walter Pharr Craven House is a historic home located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1888, and is a two-story, vernacular Victorian style frame dwelling. It is associated with a small farm that supported the family of a country doctor. Also on the property are the contributing frame well canopy (1929), family Catholic chapel (c. 1910), central passage barn (c. 1920), log corn crib (c. 1888), tool shed (c. 1920), and auto-garage (c. 1920).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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Dr. Walter Pharr Craven House
Mount Holly-Huntersville Road, Charlotte

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Mount Holly-Huntersville Road 7630
28216 Charlotte
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