not be able to pay by the deadline, he mortgaged his home to Victor Barringer in order to pay Samuel Cadwell. This second loan went equally as well as the first and, in 1888, Barringer took the property and sold it at auction to Joseph Reid in 1890. Rei Joseph Reid and his wife Rachel renovated the house several times including adding a large front porch and replacing the flooring on the ground level. He died in 1913 without any children so the house went to Rachel who died 15 years later in 1928 without ever remarrying, so the house passed to the control of their estate who put it up for sale. Cole Eugene Cole bought the Rock House and surrounding property from the Reid Estate in 1929 though he never lived in the building himself. Museum In 1943, Eugene Cole donated the house to the Western North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Church which had plans to use the site as a retirement community. In 1949, the home and some of the surrounding property was leased by members of the Daughters of the American Revolution in order to preserve and restore the historic building. The Hezekiah Alexander Home Foundation was formed in 1969 to better manage the property and to fundraise for further work. After passing through several hands, The Charlotte Museum of History became independent in 1986 and maintains the Rock House to this day. Architecture The stone house was built in a Georgian style typical of those built by Germans who settled in Pennsylvania and by the Dutch in the Hudson Valley. Germans who moved south to North Carolina brought this style of architecture with them. The Alexander House is one of the few examples of this architecture still in existence. References External links Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress): Hezekiah Alexander stone house, Charlotte vic., Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Hezekiah Alexander House - Charlotte Museum of History Houses completed in 1774 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Museums in Charlotte, North Carolina Houses in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Historic house museums in North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina