Magnolia Place | |
Magnolia Place, August 2019 | |
Location | S of Morganton on U.S. 64 at Interstate 40, near Morganton, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°43′4″N81°41′38″W / 35.71778°N 81.69389°W Coordinates: 35°43′4″N81°41′38″W / 35.71778°N 81.69389°W |
Area | 9.9 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | 1818 | , 1850
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Federal |
NRHP reference # | 73001297 [1] 100002046 (decrease) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | June 4, 1973 |
Boundary decrease | January 25, 2018 |
Magnolia Place is a historic home located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1818, and is a two-story, five bay by two bay, brick structure in the Federal style. Attached at the rear is a one bay by two bay temple form Greek Revival style addition built about 1850. It features a long full-height porch. The addition was built by Clarke Moulton Avery, second child born to Isaac Thomas Avery, master of Swan Ponds. In 1841, he married Elizabeth Tilghman Walton, daughter of Thomas George Walton, master of Creekside. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Magnolia Grove is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro, Alabama. The house was named for the 15-acre (6.1 ha) grove of Southern magnolias in which it stands. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973, due to its architectural and historical significance. It now serves as a historic house museum and is operated by the Alabama Historical Commission.
The John Watson House, now called the Magnolia Manor Plantation Bed and Breakfast, also known as Burwell House is a historic plantation house located at Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina.
Matthew Lowber House is a historic home located at Magnolia, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1774, and is a two-story, three bay, brick dwelling, with a two bay frame addition added about 1855. The interior has excellent panelling, the original wide floor boards, and a winding enclosed stairway.
Spring Bank, also known as Ravenscroft and Magnolia Grove, is a historic plantation house located near Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. It was built about 1793, and is a five-part Palladian plan frame dwelling in the Late Georgian style. It is composed of a two-story, three-bay center block flanked by one-story, one-bay, hipped roof wings with one-story, one-bay shed-roofed wings at the ends. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse, a log slave quarter, and frame tobacco barn, and the remains of late-18th or early-19th century dependencies, including a kitchen/laundry, ice house, spring house, and a dam. Also located on the property are a family cemetery and two other burial grounds. It was built by John Stark Ravenscroft (1772–1830), who became the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, serving from 1823 to 1830.
Cleveland Law Range is a historic office building located at Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1898–1899, and is a three-story, Richardsonian Romanesque style brick building. It features five arched bays on the ground floor, with repeated bay arrangements on the second and third floors. Three South Carolina governors maintained offices in the Cleveland Law Range: James F. Byrnes, John Gary Evans, and Donald S. Russell.
Elk Park School is a historic school building located at Elk Park, Avery County, North Carolina. It was built between 1935 and 1938 by the Works Progress Administration. It is a one-story, E-shaped Rustic Revival-style stone building. It measures 16 bays wide and has a large gymnasium ell. A one-story, concrete block cafeteria addition was built in 1951. Scenes from the 1974 movie "Where The Lilies Bloom" were filmed in Elk Park School, and children from the elementary school appeared as extras in those scenes. It remained in use as a school until the end of the 20th century, then converted in 2004 to apartments.
Creekside is a historic home located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1836, and is a two-story, five bay, brick mansion with a gable roof in the Greek Revival style. It features a tetrastyle pedimented portico covers with heavy stuccoed brick Doric order columns. The interior features Federal style decorative elements. It was built by Thomas George Walton, great nephew of George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Swan Ponds is a historic plantation house located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three bay, brick mansion with a low hip roof in the Greek Revival style. It features a one-story low hip-roof porch with bracketed eaves, a low pedimented central pavilion, and square columns. Swan Ponds plantation was the home of Waightstill Avery (1741–1821), an early American lawyer and soldier. His son Isaac Thomas Avery built the present Swan Ponds dwelling. Swan Ponds was the birthplace of North Carolina politician and lawyer William Waightstill Avery (1816–1864), Clarke Moulton Avery owner of Magnolia Place, and Confederate States Army officer Isaac E. Avery (1828–1863).
Tate House, also known as The Cedars, is a historic home located at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. The core was built about 1850, and is a two-story, three bay, brick mansion with a center hall plan in the Greek Revival style. It was remodeled in the Second Empire style in 1868, with the addition of a mansard roof and large three-story octagonal tower. It was the home of Samuel McDowell Tate (1830–1897), who undertook the 1868 remodeling.
Quaker Meadows, also known as the McDowell House at Quaker Meadows, is a historic plantation house located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1812, and is a two-story, four bay by two bay, Quaker plan brick structure in the Federal style. It features two one-story shed porches supported by square pillars ornamented by scroll sawn brackets. The Quaker Meadows plantation was the home of Revolutionary War figure, Col. Charles McDowell. It was at Quaker Meadows that Zebulon Baird Vance married Charles McDowell's niece, Harriet N. Espy.
Bellevue is a historic plantation house located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1826, and consists of a two-story, six bay brick structure, with an original one-story wing, in the Federal style. It has a Quaker plan interior.
Alphonse Calhoun Avery House, also known as the Avery-Surnrnersette House, is a historic home located at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1876, and is a two-story, U-shaped, Late Victorian style brick house. It features 2-l/2-story, squarish, brick tower topped by a mansard roof.
Longwood is a historic plantation house located near Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1810, and is a two-story, four bay by one bay Federal style frame block. It has a two bay wide and one bay deep Greek Revival style addition forming an overall "L"-shaped dwelling. The interior features woodwork attributed to noted African-American cabinetmaker Thomas Day. Also on the property are the frame kitchen, log corn crib, log tenant house, and log tobacco barn. It is believed to have been the home of U.S. Congressman Romulus Mitchell Saunders early in his career.
Coats House is a historic home located at Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three bays wide, English Cottage style brick dwelling. It features a hipped roof with wide, overhanging eaves and a cupola and four interior end chimneys. Also on the property are the contributing brick kitchen and a frame smokehouse. Its builder, Thomas H. Coats, also built the Calvary Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Magnolia is a historic plantation house located near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five bay, Greek Revival-style frame dwelling with rear additions. It is sheathed in weatherboard, a hipped roof with interior chimneys, and full-width front porch. The house was originally set in a formal landscape designed by Joseph B. Cheshire.
Magnolia Grove is a historic plantation house located near Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was built about 1824, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay by two bay, style brick dwelling with a Quaker plan interior. It has a gable roof, sits on a full raised basement, and one-story hip-roof porches on the front and rear facades.
Ruffin-Roulhac House, also known as Little Hawfields, is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1820, and is a 1 1/2-story, five bay, frame dwelling including a two-room addition built about 1830. It is topped by a gable roof, is sheathed in weatherboard, and has a one-bay 20th century replacement porch. The interior has Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian style design elements. It was the home of jurist Thomas Ruffin (1787–1870) from after the end of the American Civil War until his death in 1870.
E. Hervey Evans House, also known as Thomas Walton Manor, is a historic home located at Laurinburg, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a 10,000-square-foot, Georgian Revival style brick dwelling set in gardens designed by noted landscape architect Charles Gillette (1886–1969). It consists of a 2 1/2-story, central five-bay block flanked by two recessed, symmetrical, two-bay, 1 1/2-story wings. Also on the property are the contributing three-car garage, smokehouse, brick wall, and the surrounding gardens.
Little Manor is a historic plantation house located near Littleton, Warren County, North Carolina. It was built about 1804, and is a Federal style frame dwelling consisting of a two-story, five bay, pedimented main block flanked by one-story wings. It has a pedimented center bay front porch with Doric order pilasters and an older two-story rear wing, dated to about 1780.
The Thomas Walters House, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, was built around 1880. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
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