Mountain View (Morganton, North Carolina)

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Location604 W. Union St., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°44′23″N81°41′50″W / 35.73972°N 81.69722°W / 35.73972; -81.69722
Area1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Builtc. 1815 (1815)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 84000076 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 11, 1984

Mountain View is a historic plantation house at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1815, and is a 2+12-story, five-bay, Federal-style brick house. It was remodeled in the 1870s in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story gabled porch with decorative bargeboards. Later remodelings added Victorian- and Colonial Revival-style decorative elements. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [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. James Randall Cotton (March 1984). "Mountain View" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.