Biddle Memorial Hall

{{short description|Historic school building in North Carolina, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Biddle Memorial Hall, Johnson C. Smith University | image = Biddle Memorial Hall, Charlotte.jpg | caption = | location = Beatties Ford Rd. and W. Trade St., Charlotte, North Carolina | coordinates = {{coord|35|14|37|N|80|51|25|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = North Carolina#USA | built = 1883 | architecture = Romanesque | added = October 14, 1975 | area = less than one acre | refnum = 75001281<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }} '''Biddle Memorial Hall''' is a historic building on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a 3 1/2-story, five bay Romanesque-style brick and stone building on a raised basement. It features an elaborate clock tower named Big Johnson, known as the tallest clock tower that plays the Westminster Chimes every 15 minutes to mark the passing of time in the Charlotte Uptown area. Which can be heard a mile away. With a pyramidal slate roof and baritizans at each corner. It was built as the main building for the school established in 1867 by the Presbyterian church for the education of African-American students. It was named in 1923 to honor Mary D. Biddle who donated $1,400 to the school.<ref name = nrhpinv>{{Cite web | author = Charles Greer Suttlemyre, Jr. | title =Biddle Memorial Hall| work = National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory | date =July 1975| url = https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/MK0003.pdf | publisher = North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office | accessdate = February 1, 2015}}</ref>

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.<ref name=nris/>

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== External links == {{commonscat-inline|Biddle Memorial Hall}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100613195425/http://library.jcsu.edu/echo/Historic%20Properties/Biddle1.htm Biddle Hall info] {{Johnson C. Smith University}} {{NRHP in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina}}

Category:1883 establishments in North Carolina Category:African-American history in Charlotte, North Carolina Category:Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina Category:Buildings and structures in Charlotte, North Carolina Category:Clock towers in North Carolina Category:Johnson C. Smith University Category:National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Category:School buildings completed in 1883 Category:University and college buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina