Stop 45 — Bagley-Mullen House

Address: 129 North Poplar Street Year built: 1895 Style: French Chateauresque Builder: E. M. Andrews (founder of Andrews Music Company) Notable: "The only local example of the French Chateauresque style of architecture"

The Bagley-Mullen House at 129 North Poplar is an 1895 French Chateauresque residence. Per Friends of Fourth Ward, the structure was built by E. M. Andrews, a founder of the Andrews Music Company and a pivotal figure in the architectural history of Charlotte.

Why this stop matters architecturally

Per FOFW: Bagley-Mullen is "the only local example of the French Chateauresque style of architecture." That is a specific, unusual architectural claim — most Fourth Ward residences fall into the Queen Anne, Victorian, or Craftsman traditions. A single French Chateauresque survivor in the neighborhood makes the Bagley-Mullen an architectural outlier worth specifically seeking out on the walking tour.

E. M. Andrews

Andrews was a Charlotte businessman whose music company was a fixture of the city's retail and cultural life. That he also built a singular architectural specimen in Fourth Ward — rather than following the prevailing Queen Anne conventions of the 1890s — says something about Andrews's ambition and the breadth of architectural fashion in Gilded Age Charlotte.

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Source: Friends of Fourth Ward, Self-Walking Tour (2016). Retrieved April 24, 2026.