Montrose | |
Location | 320 St. Mary's Rd., Hillsborough, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 36°04′41″N79°08′36″W / 36.07806°N 79.14333°W |
Area | 61 acres (25 ha) |
Built | 1842 | , 1900, 1948
Architect | Paxton, Thomas; Carr, George Watts |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Federal |
NRHP reference No. | 01001187 [1] |
Added to NRHP | October 28, 2001 |
Montrose is a historic estate and national historic district located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. The main house was built about 1900 and remodeled in 1948. It is a two-story, three-bay, double-pile frame dwelling with a high-hip, slate-covered roof, and flanking one-story wings. It features a Colonial Revival style pedimented entrance pavilion with a swan's neck pediment. Also on the property are the contributing William Alexander Graham Law Office (1842, c. 1893) with Federal style design elements, garage (1935), kitchen (c. 1845), smokehouse (c. 1830), pump house (1948), tractor shed (1948), animal shelter (1948), barn (c. 1830-1845) and the landscaped gardens (c. 1842-1977). [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.
William Alexander Graham was a United States senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, a senator later in the Confederate States Senate from 1864 to 1865, the 30th governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and U.S. secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852, under President Millard Fillmore. He was the Whig Party nominee for vice-president in 1852 on a ticket with General Winfield Scott.
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