{"id":198,"date":"2011-06-26T02:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-05-08T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:04:05","slug":"cedar-grove-hugh-torrance-house-and-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/cedar-grove-hugh-torrance-house-and-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Grove &amp; Hugh Torrance House and Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cedar Grove is the finest ante-bellum mansion in the county. \u00a0The impressive brick Greek Revival style house was built between 1831 and 1833 as a plantation home for James G. Torance. \u00a0On the same site is the Torance House and Store, the original log home of James&#8217;s father, Hugh Torrance. It was build c. 1779 and later extended to include a four room frame addition. In ca. 1805 a store was built on to the east side of the original log house. \u00a0This is now the oldest store building in the country. It is open to the public.&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0&#8211;Text from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmhpf.org\/driving\/visitor.html\">Charlotte and Mecklenburg County for the Visitor<\/a>, within\u00a0a suggested driving tour for the area that includes\u00a0a stop at the Hugh Torrance House and Store.<\/p>\n<p>Details, photographs, and a history of this property can be found here:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Cedar Grove and Hugh Torrance House and Store, Historical Overview<\/span>. (<em><strong>NOTE: As of 5\/3\/2012 this domain is pending renewal and the link no longer works.)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cedar Grove is the finest ante-bellum mansion in the county. \u00a0The impressive brick Greek Revival style house was built between 1831 and 1833 as a plantation home for James G. Torance. \u00a0On the same site is the Torance House and Store, the original log home of James&#8217;s father, Hugh Torrance. It was build c. 1779 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/cedar-grove-hugh-torrance-house-and-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cedar Grove &amp; Hugh Torrance House and Store&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5464],"tags":[5474,5475],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-historic-sites","tag-cedar-grove","tag-torrance-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}