Tour of Homes

103 Kings Mountain St.

A pivotal house. This Carpenter Gothic building with a hip roof is 1½ stories high. Two one-and-one-half story wings with gable roofs are located on either side. A 1½ story bay with a gable roof and dormer is on the front. Brackets, beaded clapboard, and small windows decorate the dormer. Two one-and-one-half story dormers with hip roofs are also on the front and are decorated like the bay dormer. A one-story open porch with a flat roof is on the front and a pediment is attached. Fluted molding and bracketed entablature frame the main door. Windows are 1/1. Exterior wall material is beaded clapboard, and the roof is composed of imbricated tiles.

This house was built in the 1890's on land that was originally part of the property of the Gist family which lived next door. It was purchased by Dr. James McDowell from Floride Propst, the widow of the builder. Dr. McDowell had married Mattie Spencer, whose family lived in the two-story house across the street. The McDowells raised three daughters; the eldest, Mary Alice, never married and lived in the house until her death in 1980. Two rooms in the back of the house were added later one for an aunt, Rebecca McDowell, who came to live with the family. The second room, with five windows, served as a sanitarium for Dr. McDowell, who had contracted tuberculosis.

Dan andPeggy Enright own and occupy the house.

Kings Mountain Street