Harvey Mansion

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Harvey Mansion
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Harvey Mansion, 2006
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Location219 Tryon Palace Dr., New Bern, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°6′16″N77°2′17″W / 35.10444°N 77.03806°W / 35.10444; -77.03806
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Builtc. 1810 (1810)
NRHP reference No. 71000574 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 1971

Harvey Mansion is a historic home located at New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. It was built about 1793, and is a three-story, brick dwelling with an exposed basement. [2] The house was built by John Harvey who used it as a residential home and also for commercial space. The Harvey was a multi-purpose building for hundreds of years since it was first erected. Throughout its lifetime The Harvey has been an apartment house, a family owned restaurant, boarding school, military academy, and temporary barracks for elements of the Union Army and was the original home of what is now Craven Community College. [3]

It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Survey Planning Unit Staff (September 1971). "Harvey Mansion" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ghosts of New Bern by Joseph and Joyce O'Callahan


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