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Although it was the oldest house of its neighborhood it stands still in its decaying splendor. The large size, fine details of window and door pediments, Corinthian colonnade of the portico, balance of bays at sides and balustrade of Captain’s Walk represent workmanship and style of another era. The ca.1938 garage is a contributing resource. It was here that Mr. Daniel had his office and where the family lived as the house was remodeled into apartments.      The house has historical significance as the home of a well-known leader of the nineteenth century Methodist Church of North Carolina and the home of an early twentieth century entrepreneur who contributed to the growth of Cleveland County’s cotton farming market through his expertise in sales and distribution.      Hudson-Hull House has significance as the home of two leading Carolina men – Dr. Hilary Thomas Hudson (1823-1892), of the Methodist Church and James Heyward Hull, sales entrepreneur and important cotton broker at a time when Cleveland County agriculture concentrated on cotton and industy concentrated on cotton textile.      Dr. Hilary Thomas Hudson was  a leader of the nineteenth century North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church serving as pastor at Chapel Hill, Wilson, Greensboro, Fayetteville, Rockingham, Raleigh, and Shelby. He was presiding elder of the Salisbury and Shelby districts and became editor and proprietor of The Raleigh Christian Advocate. He was the author of The Methodist Armor, widely used throughout the Methodist Church, South. He wrote several smaller books, The Shield of the Young Methodist, The Red Dragon, The Sun-Clad Woman, The Prohibition Trumpet and Children’s Lamp. From his birth in Davie County in 1823 to his death in Morganton, 1892, Dr. Hudson served North Carolina through the Methodist Church.        It has not been determined exactly why Dr.Hudson settled in Shelby. Perhaps it because of his second marriage to Mecklenburg County native, Mary Taylor Lee, in 1872, or with his appointment to the pulpit of Shelby Methodist Church. He became owner of a large tract of land in northern Shelby at the intersection of the Morganton and Polkville Roads. His residence is believed to have been guilt or acquired in the 1870s and was used by his family until its sale in 1906. Dr, Hudson’s son, H.T. Hudson, Jr., a well known Shelby attorney and educator, was born of the union of Hudson and his first wife, Hattie Cole Hudson, from Greensboro. The widowed Mary Lee Hudson sold the house in 1906. It was passed through two owners and, finally, was acquired by James Heyward Hull within a year of being sold by Mrs. Hudson. The new owner, Mr. Hull, a Catawba native, had created a successful career in sales through the South, investing in banking and mercantile firms in Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. Soon after the purchase of the house, Hull was married to Loula Abernathy, of Lincoln County,and began extensive remodeling. During his residence there Hull was best known as a cotton broker connected with the firm of J.J. MeMurry, that traded and stored cotton and processed seed into oil. Cotton was most important to the economy of Cleveland County. A 1914 report of J.R. Davis states that in 1870 Cleveland County ginned 520 bales but by 1900 the figure had jumped to 18,574 bales. Local farmers remember Mr. Hull as the contact person for sale of their cotton crop. He periodically loaded his family on a railroad car and traveled to his Park Avenue apartment in New York where he had a seat on the Stock Exchange.      Mr. and Mrs. Hull had two children, James Heyward Hull, Jr. and Mary Hull, married to Thompson Gaines Daniel. At the death of Mr. Hull in 1938, James, Jr. deeded his half-interest to his sister, Mary. T.G. Daniel became trustee and managed the property until 1985 when T. G. Daniel, Jr. became the owner. ____________ Andersen, Nancy Keever, Files from Commission of Archives and History – United      Methodist Church.  Brant and Fuller, ed. “Rev. Hilary Thomas Hudson, DD” Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century (Madison, Wisconsin, 1892).  Cleveland County Register of Deeds, Shelby, N.C.  Daniel, T. G. Jr. Telephone Interview – April 27, 2000.  ______”Dr. Hilary Thomas Hudson” Western North Carolina Conference Journal (1892),pp. 18-22.  Heath, Betty Rose. Abstract – “Hudson-Hull House”, March, 1998.  Hull, James. Telephone Interview, April 29, 2000.  ______”J. Heyward Hull:, The Cleveland Star (October, 1897).  Johnston, Frances Benjamin and Thomas Tileston Waterman. The early Architecture of North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947).  Marler, James D. ed. The Heritage of Cleveland County, Volume 1 1982 Winston-Salem: Hunter Publishing Company, 1982).  ______”Mrs. Mary Taylor Hudson”Western North Carolina Conference Journal (1915).  Reid, Richard. The Book of Buildings: A Travellers Guide (New York: Crescent Books, 1984).  Rust, Joy Stagg. Old Homes of South Carolina (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., 1992). ____________ LOCATION DESCRIPTION  Hudson-Hull House is a two-story, three-bays-wide by five-bays-deep, white, clapboard house with a full basement. It is situated on an approximately one and one-half acre lot in a combination single/multiple residential and office area of the northern section of Shelby, North Carolina.  The western front of the house faces North Lafayette Street, the former Morganton Road (Highway 18 N.) at a T-intersection with Lee Street, the former Polkville Road (Highway 226 N.). The house is the home lot of a large parcel of land owned by the nineteenth century Hudsons, extending from Hudson Street on the south to Grover Street on the North and from North Lafayette Street to North Washington Street from west to east. It is in close proximity today to Cleveland Regional Medical Center and many related medical, pharmaceutical, and other offices. Hudson-Hull House is a large Greek Revival wooden structure, modified in the Neo-Classical style about 1907. It is built on a red-brick basement foundation which contained a concrete swimming pool used in the early 1900s. The fading white clapboard siding encloses two downstairs double, six-over-six windows on the front centered by a beveled glass, double front door, surrounded by sidelights and topped with transom and triangular pediment. Double windows upstairs lie above those downstairs with double window over the door having sidelights to match those flanking the door and a high arched pediment containing transom lights. Bays on the north and south sides have upper story and lower story six-over-six single windows. The center upper level windows are shorter than the side ones corresponding to the needs of the smaller rooms inside.All except the small windows have arched pediments. All have movable shutters. The rear addition built between 1938-40 has six bays of six-over-six windows on the upper level and three bays of six=overe-six downstairs with a center back door.      The Neo-Classical front portico added in about 1907 has a curved colonnade of six Corinthian columns topped by an entablature of cimple architrave and frieze with dentil molding. Squared pilasters with Corinthian capitals frame the house front at each side. A sturdy balustrade surmounts the whole. The one story porches of the 1907 addition on the north and south sides are supported by simpler Doric columns, an entablature unadorned with the dentil molding and no balustrade.The south porch has been enclosed as a sun parlor. The north porch has an attached porte-cochere.      The hip roof is topped by a Captain’s Walk with Balustrade matching that of the portico. Two small dormers, with triangular gables and arched windows, project from the roof in front of and behind the Captain’s Walk.      The only remaining outbuilding is a brick double garage with attached office, built in 1938-40.      The twenty-one rooms of the interior were modified between 1938-40 into apartments, one downstairs and three upstairs. The fourteen foot ceilings were dropped four feet. The entry hall and stairs are original. The house has one apartment in use today and is in need of repair. Return To Final Report Summary Return To Home Page