Preview: City council to consider endorsing 1950s home for national historic register
Published 12:05 am Sunday, January 19, 2025
By Robert Sullivan
SALISBURY — The Salisbury City Council will consider endorsing the National Register of Historic Places nomination of the John Erwin and Anne Farrier Ramsey House on Pine Tree Road during the meeting on Tuesday.
The home was designed and built by John Ramsay Sr. in the early 1950s and the application for national register placement says it is “an innovative multilevel modernist structure specifically designed for a pie shaped, south facing and sloping site with limited road frontage. The structure conforms to but does not impose itself on the site. It seems to be nestled there, as if it had grown there alongside the towering native pines, both commanding the view of this adjacent golf course green yet breathing in the natural landscape and southern climate.”
The house has been placed on the agenda for the Feb. 13 meeting of the state’s National Register Advisory Committee. Placement on the register would list the house’s significance on the national register as well as provide the owners with opportunities for state and federal programs and grants.
The upcoming Salisbury City Council meeting will be at 6 p.m at city hall, located at 217 S. Main St. The other items on the agenda include:
- The council will receive the town of Spencer’s proclamation honoring Mayor Karen Alexander’s legacy.
- The council will recognize the city budget staff for receiving the distinguished presentation award from the government finance officers association. The council will also recognize budget manager Tracey Keyes for her designation as a certified budget officer and certified procurement officer.
- The council will be introduced to Parks and Recreation Assistant Director Rakeem Brawley and Transportation Director Jared Mathis.
- The council will receive a $25,000 environmental grant from the Duke Energy Foundation for the purchase of four drones for the fire department.
- The council will receive an update on Salisbury-Rowan Utilities’ bacteriological testing services.
- The council will consider authorizing a $1,189,000 contract with Black and Veatch International Company for engineering services associated with the water treatment plant electrical improvement project.