Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House

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Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House
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Location135 S. Blount St., Fayetteville, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°2′48″N78°52′56″W / 35.04667°N 78.88222°W / 35.04667; -78.88222
Arealess than one acre
Built1902 (1902)
NRHP reference No. 15000237 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 13, 2015

The Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House is a historic house at 135 South Blount Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame structure, with complex massing typical of the Queen Anne architectural style. Its main block has a side-gable roof, with a projecting bay section at the right of the front facade that is topped by a gable. A hip roof porch extends from the center of the projecting bay around to the left side. The house was built in 1902, and is unusual as a Queen Anne house in one of the city's historical African-American neighborhoods. Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith, for whom the house was built, was instrumental in the development of North Carolina's first State Colored Normal School (for the training of African-American teachers), established in Fayetteville in 1877. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House" (PDF). North Carolina SHPO. Retrieved 2015-09-05.