Frank Smathers House

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Frank Smathers House
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Location724 Smathers St., Waynesville, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°30′24″N82°58′51″W / 35.50667°N 82.98083°W / 35.50667; -82.98083
Area2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built1926 (1926)
ArchitectDeGarmo, Richard
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No. 98000730 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1998

Frank Smathers House, also known as The Evergreens, is a historic home located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a 1+12-story, H-shaped, eclectic frame dwelling with Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival style design elements. It features a steeply pitched, cross gable roof with imbricated fish-scale asphalt shingles, brick interior slope chimneys, projecting eaves, and exposed rafters. Also on the property are a contributing barn (c. 1900) and stone retaining wall (1926). It was built as a summer home and family cottage for the Frank Smathers family, who owned the home from 1926 until 1988. U.S. Senator George Smathers (1913-2007), son of Frank Smathers owned the home, followed by Florida Secretary of State, Bruce Smathers, (1943) grandson of Frank Smathers, before being sold outside the family. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [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. Megan D. Eades (July 1997). "Frank Smathers House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

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