The Meadows | |
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Location | North of Fletcher on SR 1547, near Fletcher, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°26′11″N82°29′41″W / 35.43639°N 82.49472°W Coordinates: 35°26′11″N82°29′41″W / 35.43639°N 82.49472°W |
Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | c. 1860 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 80002847 [1] 100003297 (decrease) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | January 11, 1980 |
Boundary decrease | January 10, 2019 |
The Meadows, also known as The Blake House, is a historic home located near Fletcher, Henderson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a two-story, granite rubble stone dwelling in the Italianate style. It has a low hipped roof pierced with three interior chimneys and a two-story rear extension. The front facade features a one-bay porch flanked by semi-hexagonal bays. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1]
Fletcher is a town in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,187 at the 2010 census, and was estimated to be 8,333 in 2018.
Davidson House is a historic home located near Troutman, Iredell County, North Carolina. The original section was built about 1805, and enlarged and remodeled in the Federal period about 1830. It is a 1 1/2-story, two bay by two bay, log dwelling sheathed in weatherboard. It has a hall and parlor plan, front shed porch, rear shed rooms and porch, and a single should brick chimney. Also on the property is a contributing two-story three-bay wide, half-dovetail log barn.
Key Memorial Chapel, formerly the Roman Catholic parish church of Saint Philip the Apostle, is a historic Roman Catholic chapel located at 150 E. Sharpe Street in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It is considered within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte. It was built in 1898, and is a small one-story, two bay by four bay, Late Gothic Revival style brick building. It features a large, pointed arch stained glass window and a two-story tower with crenellated parapet. It was abandoned by 1976 when the parish was moved to its current location in Statesville, and the chapel was adaptively reused as a law office.
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The Iredell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was built in 1899, and is a two- to three-story, square Beaux Arts building. It is sheathed in yellow brick and consists of a center five-bay wide three-story block, surmounted by a mansard cupola and fronted by a two-story tetrastyle pedimented portico, and flanking one-bay wide two-story wings.
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