The Hall and Parlor form was also popular with Mecklenburg’s farmers. However, most of what was rural at the turn of the century has now been either incorporated into the City of Charlotte, or into the sprawling development around the city and the county’s towns. The hall-and-parlor Rich Hatchet House (MK 2290) is perhaps the only surviving 19^th century black-owned farmhouse in the county.

The hall-and-parlor form also appears to have been favored in the construction of Mecklenburg’s late 19^th century tenant houses. The board-and-batten sided White Farm Tenant House (MK 2277) and the dilapidated board-and-batten sided Caldwell Farm Tenant House (MK 2279) are both hall-and-parlor form houses. These simple two-room houses, each with a single fireplace on one of the gabled sides, are truly basic, utilitarian examples of this traditional folk housing form.