The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for upper-class African Americans. It was founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown at Sedalia, North Carolina near Greensboro. The institute was named after Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College and benefactor of Dr. Brown.
Richard Sharp Smith House, now known as Stoneybrook, is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed and built by architect Richard Sharp Smith in 1902–1903. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, stone and stucco American Craftsman / bungalow style dwelling. It features a projecting front gable bay and leaded glass windows.
Franklin-Penland House, also known as Theodore C. Franklin House, Stokes Penland House, and Linville Falls Post Office, is a historic home located at Linville Falls, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1883, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame I-house with a two-story rear ell. It features a full-width, attached two-tiered shed roof porch added about 1915. Also on the property is the former U.S. Post Office, Linville Falls, N.C., building. The one-room front gable frame building was built in 1907 and housed the Linville Falls post office until 1925.
Dr. E. H. Ward Farm is a historic home and farm located near Bynum, Chatham County, North Carolina. The main house was built in sections during the mid-19th through early-20th century beginning about 1840. The earliest section is a 1+1⁄2-story, gable-roofed, two room log structure, that forms the rear of the main section. The main section was built about 1870, and is a one-story, gable-roofed frame structure with a simple gable-front porch. A one-story board-and-batten rear ell was added about 1900. Also on the property are the contributing office of Dr. Ward, carriage house and gear room, board-and-batten barn and log cribs, smokehouse and pen, and a small brick well house.
Dr. William C. Verdery House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a Colonial Revival-style brick dwelling. It consists of a two-story, main block flanked by a two-story wing and a one-story porch wing on the west and a one-story wing and recessed two-bay wing on the east. It is topped by a slate gable roof and features an Ionic order entrance surround.
S. G. Atkins House is a historic home located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1893, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with rear additions. The front facade has a central gable and a hip-roofed porch. It was built by Dr. Simon Green Atkins, the founder of the Slater Industrial Academy for African-American students. The house was converted to apartments in 1951.
Dr. J. H. Harris House is a historic home located at 312 East Mason Street in Franklinton, Franklin County, North Carolina. It was built between 1902 and 1904, and is a two-story, rectangular Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It features a tall, steep deck-and-hip roof; projecting bays, gables, dormers, and towers; and a one-story wraparound porch.
Dr. Joseph A. McLean House is a historic home located near Sedalia, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, three-bay, vernacular Greek Revival style dwelling. The house originated as a two-story log structure and has a one-story gable-roofed rear ell. The front facade features a massive one-story pedimented portico at the central entrance bay.
Hoffman-Bowers-Josey-Riddick House is a historic home located at Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built in 1883, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular, frame dwelling with Stick Style / Eastlake movement design elements. It has a complex polychromed, slate roof gable roof; three-story central tower with hexagonal roof; and one-story rear ell. It features a front porch with sawn balustrade.
Garner Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located near Days Crossroads, Halifax County, North Carolina. It encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site, the farm landscape. The farmhouse, commonly known as “The Big House” to the family, was built between 1900 and 1902, and is a "triple-A" I-house, three bays wide, with an original one-story rear ell. It has a gable roof with interior end chimneys and pedimented gable ends. The house was modernized in the 1940s. Also on the property is a contributing kitchen and packhouse.
Roberts-Vaughan House is a historic home located in the Murfreesboro Historic District at Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1805, as a two-story, five-bay, Federal style frame dwelling with a gable roof. The front facade features a large three bay tetrastyle pedimented portico in the Greek Revival style. It was built by Benjamin Roberts, a prominent local merchant.
Dr. Roscius P. and Mary Mitchell Thomas House and Outbuildings, also known as the Ruth Thomas Home Farm, is a historic home located near Bethlehem, Hertford County, North Carolina. The house was built in 1887, and is a two-story, three-bay, single-pile, side-gable roof, Late Victorian style frame dwelling with a two-story, gable-roof rear ell. Built into the ell is a Greek Revival style kitchen building. The house is sheathed in weatherboard, sits on a brick foundation, and has a one-story half-hip roof porch. Also on the property are the contributing doctor's office, smoke house, and root cellar.
Penland Post Office and General Store, also known as Bailey Lumber Company Office Building and Bailey Lumber Company Office and General Merchandise Store, is a historic post office and general store located at Penland, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was built about 1900, and is a long, one-story, frame building with a front-gable roof and rough-sawn board and batten siding. The building housed the office and store of the Bailey Lumber Company from about 1900 to 1916, and a general store from about 1902 to 1974. It has housed the Penland post office since 1934 and is the oldest active post office facility in Mitchell County and is the county's last remaining Fourth Class post office.
Dr. Hassell Brantley House is a historic home located at Spring Hope, Nash County, North Carolina. It was built in 1912, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, central block with two-story gable roofed wings. A has a one-story rear kitchen wing with a hip roof. The front facade features full-height, Classical Revival pedimented portico, with Ionic order columns and a wrap-around porch.
Jesse R. Moye House is a historic home located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Herbert Woodley Simpson and built in 1902. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with Colonial Revival style details. It has a large wraparound front porch, multiple projections, and multiple gable roofline.
Charlton Leland, also known as the Dr. E.B Goelet House and Saluda Inn, is a historic home located at Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina. It was built about 1896, as a 2+1⁄2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a wraparound porch. It was enlarged and remodeled in the Colonial Revival style when converted to an inn in 1914. It rests on an ashlar-face stone foundation and is capped by a gable-on-hip roof with a prominent front gable. The building houses a retreat house known as the Saluda Inn.
The Griffith–Sowers House is a United States historic home located near Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built between 1930 and 1932 and is a large two-story, Colonial Revival style frame country house. It features a five-bay wide center block that is covered by a side-gable slate roof and linked by shallow one-bay wide hyphens to flanking, recessed, and perpendicular gable-front two-story wings. Other features include the poultry house, barn, small storage building, and landscaped grounds.
Dr. Evan Alexander Erwin House is a historic home located at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1904, and extensively remodeled in 1939 in the Classical Revival style. It is a two-story, five-bay, double pile, frame dwelling, with one-story side-gable flanking side wings. It features a two-story front porch with a flat roof and supported by four square slender wood columns with Tuscan order caps. Also on the property is a contributing two car garage.
John C. Sikes House is a historic home located at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926–1927, and consists of a 2+1⁄2-story, five bay by four bay, Classical Revival-style main block with a two-story rear ell. The house is constructed of yellow Roman brick and has a gable roof. The front facade features a parapeted portico supported by six stone Tuscan order columns.
The Dr. Ezekiel Ezra Smith House is a historic house at 135 South Blount Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It is a 2+1⁄2-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, established in Fayetteville in 1877.
