Francis Marion Smith House | |
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| Location | 204 Railroad Ave., Gibsonville, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°6′15″N79°32′28″W / 36.10417°N 79.54111°W Coordinates: 36°6′15″N79°32′28″W / 36.10417°N 79.54111°W |
| Area | 1.3 acres (0.53 ha) |
| Built | 1898 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002330 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 12, 1984 |
Francis Marion Smith House is a historic home located at Gibsonville, Guilford County, North Carolina.
It was built in 1898, and consists of a 2/2-story, double-pile main block with a one-story rear kitchen ell. The house incorporates Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style design elements. It has a high hipped roof, tall chimneys with boldly corbeled caps, and a full with front porch with Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are the contributing well house and smokehouse. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
Marion is a city in McDowell County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of McDowell County. Founded in 1844, the city was named in honor of Brigadier General Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War Hero whose talent in guerrilla warfare earned him the name "Swamp Fox". Marion's Main Street Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The population was 7,838 at the 2010 Census.
Marion is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, South Carolina, United States. It is named for Francis Marion, a Brigadier General from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. The population was 6,939 at the 2010 census.
Kingstree is a city and the county seat of Williamsburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,328 at the 2010 census.
Francis Marion University is a public university near Florence, South Carolina. It is named in honor of American Revolutionary War Brigadier General Francis Marion.
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, is a mid-Georgian plantation house, the first built in the manner of a neo-Palladian villa. John Ariss is the attributed architect and builder. Tayloe's daughter, Rebecca and her husband Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the only pair of brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence are buried on the estate, as are many other Tayloes. Before the American Civil War, Mount Airy was a prominent racing horse stud farm, as well as the headquarters of about 10-12 separate but interdependent forced-labor plantations along the Rappahannock River. Mount Airy is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark as well as on the Virginia Landmarks Register and is still privately owned by Tayloe's descendants.
The Siege of Fort Watson was an American Revolutionary War confrontation in South Carolina that began on April 15, 1781 and lasted until April 23, 1781. Continental Army forces under Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee and South Carolina militia under Francis Marion besieged Fort Watson, a fortified British outpost that formed part of the communication and supply chain between Charleston and other British outposts further inland.
The Nash-Hooper House, also known as the William Hooper House, is a historic house at 118 West Tryon Street in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Built in 1772 by American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, it was home from 1782–90 to William Hooper, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. It is the only known home of Hooper's to survive, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District; it is a private residence, and is not normally open to the public.
The Frank and Mary Smith House is a historic home located at 2935 John Adams Road in Willow Spring, Wake County, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh. The house was built about 1880, and is a two-story, three-bay, single-pile frame I-house with a central hall plan. It is sheathed in weatherboard, has a triple-A-roof, and a 1+1⁄2-story tall shed addition and gabled rear ell.
Cedar Crest, also known as Cedar Crest Farms, is a Greek Revival plantation house located near Faunsdale, Alabama. It was built for Kimbrough Cassels Dubose in 1850 by Albert Prince, a slave. Dubose, born in Darlington District, South Carolina was educated at the preparatory school of Prof. Stafford who later was of the faculty of the University of Alabama. His wife was Miss Elizabeth Boykin Witherspoon also of Darlington District, South Carolina, and they had seven sons and four daughters: John Witherspoon, James Henry, Jr., Eugene, Nicholas William, Francis Marion, Lemuel Benton and Edwin Dargan-the daughters Louisa, Rosalie, Augusta and Adele. The plantation was worked by the forced labor of as many as 130 enslaved persons. The house is one-and-a-half stories with side gables, but has been simplified. It originally had side wings, with adjoining porches across the front. These were removed in 1939, leaving the small central front portico. Another historic plantation house, Altwood, was moved from a nearby location to the Cedar Crest grounds in 1988. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1993, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.
William Lee Stoddart (1868–1940) was an architect best known for designing urban hotels in the eastern United States. Although he was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, most of his commissions were in the South. He maintained offices in Atlanta and New York City.
The Carson House is a historic house and museum located in Marion, North Carolina. It was the home of Col. John Carson, and served as the McDowell County courthouse when the county was first organized in 1842.
The Modjeska Monteith Simkins House is a historic place of the civil rights movement. The house, which was owned by Modjeska Monteith Simkins, is located at 2025 Marion Street in Columbia, South Carolina. On March 25, 1994, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places.
Medway or the Medway Plantation is a plantation in Mount Holly, South Carolina within Berkeley County, South Carolina. It is about 2 mi (3.2 km) east of U.S. Route 52 from the unincorporated community of Mount Holly, which is directly north of Goose Creek, South Carolina. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on July 16, 1970.
General Francis Marion Bamberg (1838-1905), the builder of the General Francis Marion Bamberg House, played an important role in the growth of the town and county of Bamberg, South Carolina. Among other accomplishments, General Bamberg promoted the educational, religious, economic and cultural growth of the town of Bamberg, gave a library and gymnasium to the Carlisle Fitting School, and significant sums for the construction of a Methodist church. The house, located in one of Bamberg's oldest residential areas, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 29, 1976.
The historic Francis Marion Hotel at 387 King St., Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the tallest buildings in Charleston. The hotel, named for the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, was built by local investors at a cost of $1.5 million from plans by noted New York architect William Lee Stoddart. The hotel was built in 1924 by the Marion Square Realty Co., a group headed by former mayor of Charleston T.T. Hyde. The original ownership group formed on March 13, 1920. When the hotel opened on February 7, 1924, the Francis Marion was the largest and grandest hotel in the Carolinas.
King-Freeman-Speight House, also known as Francis Speight House, is a historic plantation house located at Republican, Bertie County, North Carolina. It was built in two sections, with the oldest built between 1808 and 1828. The older section forms the basis of the current rear wing. About 1828, a 2+1⁄2-story, Federal style, side-hall plan was added at a right angle to the original structure. The house was enlarged and remodeled in 1907. It has a two-story, two-bay addition and a two-story rear addition built in 1855. It features a hip roof front porch. Also on the property are the contributing two smokehouses, the kitchen, and an office. Noted landscape artist Francis Speight was born in the house in 1896.
Marion Jasper Jordan Farm, also known as Jordan Place, is a historic home and farm located near Gulf, Chatham County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1893, and is a large two-story Late Victorian / Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a two-story rear all. It features a nearly-full-facade, full-height two-tiered entry porch. Also on the property are the contributing wellhouse, flower house, blacksmith's shop, and caretaker's cottage.
John Marion Galloway House is a historic home located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted architect Harry Barton and built in 1919. It is a three-story, rectangular dwelling with Tudor Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style design elements. It has a veneer of random-coursed granite with half-timbered gable ends, gable-roofed dormers, and a red tile roof. Also on the property is a contributing two-story double garage which once included servants' quarters.
Willard Close Northup (1882–1942) was an American architect in North Carolina, who was the principal partner in the firm Northup & O'Brien. His firm was based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Northup began his architectural practice in 1906 and partnered with Leet Alexander O'Brien (1891–1963) in 1915 or 1916. Luther Lashmit joined the firm in 1927, and was lead architect for Graylyn while an employee of the firm.
Marion House and Marion Brothers Store also known as Jubal E. Marion—Richard Nathaniel Marion House and Oakcrest, is a historic home and general store located at Siloam, Surry County, North Carolina. The house was built over three periods in 1861, 1895, and 1913. It is a two-story, three bay, double pile, Classical Revival, Southern Colonial style frame dwelling. The 1913 remodeling was by prominent Winston-Salem architect Willard C. Northup. It features a two-story, Ionic order central portico and a one-story porch with Tuscan order columns that nearly encircles the house. The Marion Brothers Store was built about 1894, and is a two-story, brick commercial building. The property also includes the contributing wash house/smokehouse, a garage with a tool room/shop and a pump room, a fish pool, a carbide house, two chicken houses, a barn, a corn crib / granary, and two tobacco barns.
