Maxwell Chambers House

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]

Maxwell Chambers House
Maxwell Chambers House. Ca. 1819. Federal. Salisbury, NC. West Square Local Historic District.
Location116 S. Jackson St., Salisbury, North Carolina
Coordinates35°40′09″N 80°28′20″W
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Builtc. 1814 (1814)-1819
Built byStirewalt, Jacob
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No.72000992[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 1972

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 prior to 1979 and was used for that purpose until the museum moved to the former courthouse in 2001.[5]

Maxwell Chambers

It was the home of Maxwell Chambers (1780-1855), a slave owner, planter and manufacturer in Salisbury.[6] He was also a representative from the Salisbury District in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1779, 1789, and 1790.[7]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Rowan Museum Inc". Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  3. 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 2015-02-01.
  4. David Ford Hood (2000). The Architecture of Rowan County. Historic Salisbury Foundation. p. 49.
  5. Blankenship, Carl (2021-07-11). "Rowan Museum kicks off summer series with historical toys". Salisbury Post. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  6. Wineka, Mark (2015-07-21). "'They stopped in Oberlin': Freed slaves from Salisbury made a new life in progressive Ohio village". Salisbury Post. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  7. James S. Brawley (1979). "Maxwell Chambers". NCPedia. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
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