Maxwell Chambers House
Maxwell Chambers House | |
Maxwell Chambers House. Ca. 1819. Federal. Salisbury, NC. West Square Local Historic District. | |
| Location | 116 S. Jackson St., Salisbury, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°40′09″N 80°28′20″W / 35.66917°N 80.47222°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built | c. 1814-1819 |
| Built by | Stirewalt, Jacob |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000992[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 20, 1972 |
Maxwell Chambers House (also called Utzman-Chambers House[2]) is a historic home located at Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built between 1814 and 1819, and is a two-story, three-bay, Federal-style frame townhouse. It has three interior end chimneys and a one-story full-width shed roofed front porch with Doric order columns.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1] It is located in the Salisbury Historic District.
Cabinetmaker Lewis Utzman bought the site in 1814 from Charles Fisher for $100 and sold it to Judge James Martin for $1026 in 1819. It is believed the house was built for Utzman between these two dates, possibly by Jacob Utzman, who may have been a relative.[4]
The house became the Rowan County museum in the years 1953 to 1979[5] and was used for that purpose until the museum moved to the former courthouse in 2001.[6] In August 2025, the Historic Salisbury Foundation said it was moving out of the Salisbury Depot, which was sold to the city, into the Utzman-Chambers House.[5]
Maxwell Chambers
It was the home of Maxwell Chambers (1780-1855), a slave owner, planter and manufacturer in Salisbury.[7] He was also a representative from the Salisbury District in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1779, 1789, and 1790.[8]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Rowan Museum Inc". Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ John B. Wells, III (June 1971). "Maxwell Chambers House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
- ^ David Ford Hood (2000). The Architecture of Rowan County. Historic Salisbury Foundation. p. 49.
- ^ a b Sullivan, Robert (August 26, 2025). "Historic Salisbury Foundation moving offices to Utzman-Chambers House". Salisbury Post. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
- ^ Blankenship, Carl (July 11, 2021). "Rowan Museum kicks off summer series with historical toys". Salisbury Post. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ Wineka, Mark (July 21, 2015). "'They stopped in Oberlin': Freed slaves from Salisbury made a new life in progressive Ohio village". Salisbury Post. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
- ^ James S. Brawley (1979). "Maxwell Chambers". NCPedia. Retrieved April 18, 2019.