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Follow the Rail-Trail south, and enjoy the scenery until you come to South Academy Street. A right on Academy will take you back in the direction of Main Street.
The house sitting at the corner of 204 South Academy Street is the Frank Beal House. Mr. Frank Beal built this Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style house a few yards away from his place of work, R.F. Beal & Co. Feed & Sale, on East Water Street. Beal was in the Standard Oil business with C. H. Rhodes, who later owned the business under multiple names. The signs for Rhodes and Corriher can still be seen on the building on East Water Street.
The clipped north and south gable ends and the irregular form of the home reflect the influence of the late-nineteenth-century Queen Anne style. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Lincolnton saw an increase in population from 828 in 1900 to 3,390 by 1920. This increase precipitated the need for more houses, and there were 650 dwellings in the city limits of Lincolnton. Many of these houses were built in eclectic mixes of the Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, and bungalow styles. The only other architecturally comparable examples of dwellings built in the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style near downtown Lincolnton are the Henry A. Kistler House on North Laurel Street and the John R. Moore House on South Cedar Street.
