Local Girl Does Good

Harriet Morrison Irwin was one of the six daughters of a local preacher during the Victorian era. They all married confederate officers in the 1860’s. The most famous one was Anna Morrison Jackson, the second wife of “Stonewall” Jackson, who lived in Charlotte after she was widowed, but Harriet became an architect and patented her design for a six-sided house. Several of these structures were built here in Charlotte, but of course they were all demolished. The plans still exist, though, so one of Harriet’s houses could be constructed today.