McElwee Houses

{{short description|Historic house in North Carolina, United States}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = McElwee Houses

| nrhp_type = hd

| nocat = yes

| image = McELWEE HOUSES, STATESVILLE, IREDELL COUNTY, NC.jpg

| caption =

| location = 122, 126, 134 and 140 Water St., Statesville, North Carolina

| coordinates = {{coord|35|47|11|N|80|53|15|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = North Carolina#USA

| architecture = Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, Neo-Classical Revival

| added = November 24, 1980

| area = {{convert|1.5|acre}}

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000457|title=Iredell County MRA}}

| refnum = 80002874{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

McElwee Houses is a national historic district located at Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It encompasses four contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Statesville. The district includes notable examples of Classical Revival and Colonial Revival architecture and were built in the first decade of the 20th century. They were built by members of the John H. McElwee family, a prominent family of industrialists in the late-19th and early-20th century.{{Cite web | author =Laura A. W. Phillips| title =McElwee Houses | work = National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory | date = February 1980 | url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/ID0030.pdf | format = pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = 2015-01-01}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.