United States Mint

Contributors:
Ligon and Perry, builders; Thomas P. Ligon, builder; Reuben Perry, builder; William Strickland, architect
Dates:

1835-1837

Location:
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
Street Address:

Charlotte, NC

Status:

No longer standing

Type:

Public

Note:

Strickland’s mint burned in 1844. The mint was rebuilt in 1845 on the old walls as a 1-story building, from a design supplied by Franklin Peale, son of Charles Willson Peale. A photograph of the rebuilt mint appears in Anthony Joseph Stautzenberger, The Establishment of the Charlotte Branch Mint: A Documented History (1976). That building was disassembled in 1936 and rebuilt on a different site as the Mint Museum. There are no known images of the original Strickland building, which was different in appearance from the one rebuilt after the fire.