Boone-Withers House

Boone-Withers House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Boone-Withers House, January 2019
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Location	305 Church St., Waynesville, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°29′26″N82°59′25″W / 35.49056°N 82.99028°W / 35.49056; -82.99028
Area	less than one acre
Built	c. 1883 (1883)
Built by	Sam Liner
Architect	William H. Lord (1914)
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	83001889 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 21, 1983

The Boone-Withers House is a historic home located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built about 1883, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Late Victorian style frame dwelling. It has a large, two-story gabled wing and three smaller, two-story bays. It features a one-story, hip roofed wraparound porch and two tall chimneys. ^[2]

The house was built for John Kader Boone by local carpenter Sam Liner. Boone died in 1912. The second owner, James D. Grant, had the house renovated in 1914 from designs by Asheville architect William H. Lord. Grant, a resident of New Orleans, used the house as a summer home. The third owner, Ernest L. Withers, bought the house in 1923. Both Boone and Withers were members of locally-prominent families. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. ^[1] The home was restored by Waynesville Historic Preservation Society vice chair Rodney Conard, who also revitalized the Balsam Mountain Inn in 2023. ^[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. James Randall Cotton (April 1983). "Boone-Withers House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.
3. Buchanan, Jim (October 4, 2023). "Conards step up to breathe new life into iconic Balsam Inn". The Sylva Herald and Ruralite . Retrieved October 15, 2024.