Lazenby Brothers (ca. 1890-ca. 1902)

Founded:

Statesville, North Carolina, USA

Residences:

  • Statesville, North Carolina

Trades:

  • Contractor

Styles & Forms:

Chateau Style; Colonial Revival; Romanesque Revival

For a building list and more details, see Alfred Lazenby.

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  • Billingsley Hospital

    Contributors:
    C. C. Hook, architect; Hook and Sawyer, architects; Alfred Lazenby, builder; Lazenby Brothers, builders
    Dates:

    1899-1900

    Location:
    Statesville, Iredell County
    Street Address:

    Park St., Statesville, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Health Care

    Note:

    The Statesville Record and Landmark of August 13, 1959, carried a historical account by Homer Keever about the Billingsley Hospital, a bequest to the city from a minister named Amos S. Billingsley. Hook and Sawyer were employed as the architects, and the contract went to the Lazenby Brothers. It served for many years and was eventually razed.


  • Carnegie Library

    Contributors:
    Variant Name(s):

    Charlotte Public Library

    Dates:

    1901-1903

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    310 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Public

    Images Published In:

    Mary Norton Kratt and Mary Manning Boyer, Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950 (2000).

    Note:

    A notice carried in the Roxboro Courier of November 6, 1901, reported that Lazenby Brothers of Statesville had the contract to build the $25,000 Carnegie library. It was to be “of the French renaissance style.” The Manufacturers’ Record of November 7, 1901, noted that “Lazenby Brothers of Statesville” had received a $25,000 contract to erect a proposed Carnegie Library in Charlotte, a prominent edifice designed by Wheeler, McMichael, and Company (the short-lived partnership of Oliver Wheeler and James M. McMichael). The accompanying postcard image shows the library on the right, and First Baptist Church on the left.


  • Key Memorial Chapel

    Contributors:
    Alfred Lazenby, builder; Lazenby Brothers, builders
    Variant Name(s):

    St. Philip’s Catholic Church

    Dates:

    1898

    Location:
    Statesville, Iredell County
    Street Address:

    156 E. Sharpe St., Statesville, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    The small brick church in Gothic Revival style features a crenellated corner tower. It was built in memory of a Philip Barton Key (a grand nephew of Francis Scott Key), who became a businessman in Statesville after the Civil War.


  • Tenth Avenue Presbyterian Church

    Contributors:
    Hook and Sawyer, architects; Alfred Lazenby, builder; Lazenby Brothers, builders
    Dates:

    Ca. 1902

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    Tenth Ave., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    The Manufacturer’s Record of November 14, 1901, said that Lazenby Brothers of Statesville had a contract to build a proposed Graham Street Presbyterian Church in Charlotte after plans by Hook and Sawyer. A year later, an article in the Charlotte News of November 8, 1902, explained that the congregation had decided to build at a new location at the corner of 10th and Pine Streets and to rename the church Tenth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The newspaper printed a drawing of the Gothic Revival church. After that church burned, the congregation moved to another site and became Third Presbyterian Church, which is still active.


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