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Line 1: {{short description|American architect}} '''James Mackson McMichael''' (December 14, 1870 – October 3, 1944), known as '''James M. McMichael''', was an American architect.<ref name=ncarchitect_mcmichael>{{cite web|url=http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000266 |title=North Carolina Architects & Builders: McMichael, James M. (1870-1944) |author=Michelle Ann Michael and Catherine W. Bishir |year=2012 |publisher=North Carolina State University Libraries}}</ref> Several buildings he designed are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> Line 5 ⟶ 7: Early in his career, he worked at Wheeler, McMichael, and Company (1901–1902) and McMichael and Hunter (1903–1904). During most of his career, he ran his own firm.<ref name=char/> McMicahel was born in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]] to James and Lavinia (Venia) McMichael and had at least four siblings.<ref name=char/> He married Sarah Florence Williamson on October 23, 1896 in [[Chester, Pennsylvania]], where they lived in 1900.<ref name=char/> He moved to Charlotte in 1901 and was associated with architect [[Oliver Duke Wheeler]].<ref name=char/> He may have replaced [[Louis E. Schwend]] who died in 1900.<ref name=char/> In 1903, McMichael and architect [[Leonard L. Hunter]] formed the firm of McMichael and Hunter which lasted through 1904. They designed two schools, two houses, a courthouse, a lodge, an office building, and seven churches.<ref name=char/> McMichael established his own firm in 1904. By 1915 or 1916, the busy practice hired [[Marion R. Marsh]]. Like architect [[C. C. Hook]] of Charlotte, he favored [[Colonial architecture]] designs. He also designed [[Gothic Revival architecture]] churches, including First Baptist Church (1922–1924) in Concord, [[Myers Park Presbyterian Church]] (1927) He designed the First Baptist Church in Charlotte in a [[Byzantine architecture]] style. Many of his church designs are domed.<ref name=char/> Other churches he designed include the [[Page Memorial Methodist Church]] (1913) in Aberdeen, [[East Avenue Tabernacle Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church]] (1914) in Charlotte, [[Edenton Baptist Church]] (1916–1920) in Edenton, First Baptist Church (1922) in Lincolnton, Edenton Baptist Church, and Charlotte's Little Rock A. M. E. Zion Church (1908–1911).<ref name=char/> | |||