John Steele House

Contributors:

John Langdon, carpenter and joiner; Elam Sharpe, carpenter

Variant Name(s):

Lombardy

Dates:

1799-1801

Location:

Salisbury, Rowan County

Street Address:

1010 Richard St., Salisbury vicinity, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina (2003).
Davyd Foard Hood, The Architecture of Rowan County North Carolina: A Catalogue and History of Surviving 18^th, 19^th, and Early 20^th Century Structures (1983).
Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas Tileston Waterman, The Early Architecture of North Carolina (1941).

Note:

Steele’s side-passage plan frame house was a showplace of Salisbury for many years and was photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, including its delicately proportioned Federal style mantel enriched with composition ornament Steele ordered from the Wellford Company of Philadelphia. In the 20^th century the house was heavily altered and many of its fine Federal style mantels and other elements were removed to other buildings. In the late 20^th century the house was painstakingly restored by its owner, Edward Clement of Salisbury.