Biltmore Forest is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,343 in 2010. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Biltmore Forest is the 2nd wealthiest town in North Carolina by per capita income at $85,044.
Asa Biggs was a United States Representative and a United States Senator from North Carolina and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Albemarle, Cape Fear and Pamptico Districts of North Carolina.
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Stagville Plantation is located in Durham County, North Carolina. With buildings constructed from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, Stagville was part of one of the largest plantation complexes in the American South. The entire complex was owned by the Bennehan, Mantack and Cameron families; it comprised roughly 30,000 acres (120 km2) and was home to almost 900 enslaved African Americans in 1860.
Charles Raper Jonas was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina for ten terms (1953–1973). At the time of his election in 1952, he became the first Republican to represent his state in either house of the U.S. Congress since his own father, Charles A. Jonas, and George M. Pritchard left office in 1931.
George Washington Logan was a prominent North Carolina politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War as a peace and Unionist candidate.
Bath Historic District is a historic district in Bath, Beaufort County, North Carolina. The district is now a North Carolina Historic Site belonging to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and known as Historic Bath, and includes a visitor center offering guided tours of the Bonner House and Palmer-Marsh House, which is also a National Historic Landmark. Visitors can also tour the Van der Veer House and St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
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.
Tudor Hall is a historic home located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1 1⁄2-story Gothic Revival cottage built of painted brick. The house was built as a country retreat by Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852) from Plates 44 and 45, Design XVII, of The Architect, by William H. Ranlett, 1847. However, Booth never lived in Tudor Hall, because he died before it was completed. His son Edwin Booth lived there only briefly on his return from California before he moved the family back into Baltimore. But his other son, John Wilkes Booth, lived there with his mother, brother Joseph, and two sisters from December 1852 through most of 1856.
Alfred Moore was a North Carolina judge who became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Moore Square, a park located in the Moore Square Historic District in Raleigh, North Carolina was named in his honor, as was Moore County, established in 1784, also in the state of North Carolina.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Taylor Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located in Richlands, Onslow County, North Carolina. The main house was designed by Leslie N. Boney and built in 1931–1932. It is a two-story, brick dwelling with Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style design elements. Other contributing resources include two garages, pump house, barn, Woodward-Taylor Cemetery, silo complex, and the surrounding agricultural landscape.
Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church near Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. The congregation was founded in 1797, and the current meeting house was completed in early 1856. It is a two-story, gable front Greek Revival style frame building. The land on which the church stands was donated by prominent landowner and politician Duncan McFarland (1759-1816). The church was used for a short period by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman as his headquarters in March 1865 prior to the Battle of Bentonville. It is the oldest church building in Scotland County.
Warrenton is a town in and the county seat of Warren County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. Warrenton, now served by U.S. 401 and U.S. 158, was founded in 1779. It became one of the wealthiest towns in the state from 1840 to 1860, as it was the trading center of an area of rich tobacco and cotton plantations. It has a large stock of historic architecture. More than 90 percent of its buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places and its National Historic District encompasses nearly half its area.
Colonel John Gotea Pressley House, also known as the Pressley-Hirsch-Green House and Wylma M. Green House is a historic home located at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1855, and is a 1 1/2-story, weatherboard-clad Greek Revival style frame dwelling. The front facade features a “rain porch” and a dormer with a Palladian window. It was the home of Colonel John Gotea Pressley, a prominent local attorney, judge, and Confederate regimental field officer.
North Main Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Newton, Catawba County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 86 contributing buildings in a primarily residential neighborhood of Newton. Most of the buildings date from the late-19th an early-20th century and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Junius R. Gaither House, First Presbyterian Church (1878), Eli M. Deal House (1904), Wade C. Raymer House (1923), William W. Trott House, Dr. Glenn Long House, Hewitt-McCorkle House (1920), Andrew J. Seagle House, Walter C. Feimster House (1908), Robert B. Knox House (1912), (Former) Newton High School, Henkel-Williams-White House, Loomis F. Klutz House, (former) Newton Elementary School, and Beth Eden Lutheran Church (1929).
John H. Adams House, also known as Davis Funeral Home, is a historic home located at High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918, and is a two-story, five bay, stuccoed frame structure in the Italian Renaissance style. It has a low pitched, deck-hipped roof with terra cotta, widely overhanging boxed eaves, and a three-bay recessed upper porch or loggia with semi-circular arches.
Oakmont, also known as the William Albion Dunn House, is a historic home located at Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was designed by the architectural firm Benton & Benton and built in 1930. It is a two-story, five bay Colonial Revival frame dwelling with projecting frame wings, a screened porch and porte cochere and an open porch and rear sun room. Also on the property are the contributing garage, playhouse, and house site.
William Carter House, also known as the Carter-Burge-Miller House, is a historic home located near Mount Airy, Surry County, North Carolina. It was built about 1834, and is a two-story, three bay, vernacular Federal style brick dwelling. A one-story rear kitchen ell was added in 1931–1932. The interior features decorative painting from the Federal period.
Adams-Edwards House is a historic home located near Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The original section of the house was built about 1850, and is a single-story, single-pile, side-gabled house with Greek Revival-style design elements. It has a centered front gable, a 3/4-width hip-roofed front porch, and a one-story gabled rear ell. Additions and alterations were made to the original house about 1860, about 1880, and about 1900. Also on the property is a contributing well house.
