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15180
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Capt. Peter Hairston's historic plantation stood in Stokes County near the Sauratown Mountains. Hairston purchased the 32,000 acre plantation in the early 19th-century, becoming one of the wealthiest planters in the region before his death in 1834.
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15181
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Located in Vance County between Petersburg and Fayetteville, Major Bromfield Ridley built Nine Oaks before the Revolutionary War. The exterior presented a plain façade but inside the interior was once decorated with frescoes and intricately carved woodworking.
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15185
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In 1938, Buckland was considered to be the oldest home standing in the state. Believed to have been built as early as 1650, the home stood in Gates County. By the early 20th-century, the home's shell stood but much of the interior was removed and sent to a northern museum.
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St. Lawrence's Church in Asheville was once a modest wooden building in 1868. At the turn of the century Signor Gustavino planned a new, larger, and more intricate house of worship. Gustavino designed the church on the medieval principle of cohesive construction which is based on gravity and cohesive strength of the material. Gustavino's other work included: the dome of Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, buildings on University of Virginia's campus, and Boston Public Library.
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15192
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Colonel James Richardson built his residence before the Revolutionary War. Harmony Hall possessed several distinct features including four floors, which was not typical in colonial southern homes, and a Nantucket roof another striking detail. He built it in the White Oak section of Bladen County near the Cape Fear River.
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15196
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No other section of North Carolina has so many fine old mansions of the ante-bellum period as Caswell County. Here a tourist can find plantation manors, boxwood mazes, and lasting evidence of the height of aristocratic Southern culture. Caswell County no only holds the most ante-bellum mansions, but restoration of these architectural treasures is a top priority.
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For years Third Creek Church in Rowan County has been the recipient of much publicity as the final resting place of Napoleon's Marshall Ney, of France. But aside from this interesting enigma, the church itself is a shrine of great religious and historic interest. Organized in 1787 by Scotch pioneers, the church continued to grow and prosper with a congregation that included prominent settlers and slaves.
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In Lincoln County, not far from the town of Denver, stands a picturesque mansion of the Old South. Built in 1817, Ingleside, the home of Major Daniel Forney, is probably the only house in the south designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe who planned the national Capitol.
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St. Bartholomew's was an Episcopal Church located in Pittsboro. Records from the church dated to the Colonial Period but the building was erected in 1831 by the hills family of the Lower Cape Fear region. In 1939 restoration of the church was completed with further work planned for the cemetery.
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15265
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The Garden Club of North Carolina's agenda for 1939 was to encourage restoration of historic homes. The objective was to find and document appropriate homes and then encourage buyers to invest in and preserve the buildings. One of the club's efforts was the restoration of the Jacob Stiewalt House, an 1821 example of neo-classic architecture.
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15351
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In Catawba County near Newton the colonial church of the Palatinates still stood in 1938. The Palatinates moved to the western part of the state beginning in 1740 and built their meeting house in 1763. The group was represented by Lutherans and German Reformed which coexisted peacefully.
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A group of Benedictine monks from St. Vincent's Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, moved to Belmont in 1876. On October 18, 1886, they began building St. Mary's College and in 1892, construction started on the cathedral. In was dedicated two years later by Cardinal Gibbons and by order of Pope Pius X, became the first Cathedral Abbey in America. It stands as an example of Gothic architecture built of brick with granite trim.
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17103
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This historic old building in Stokes County, built by Ambrose Blackburne and located on the highway between Walnut Cove and Danbury, has had an interesting history since it was built in the days before the Revolutionary War.
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17140
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Many people associate the name Daniel Boone with Kentucky; however, the Boone family came from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in 1750. Tucker recounts the years this intrepid and far-traveling explorer spent in the state.
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17168
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While services were held in Pittsboro since the late 1700s, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church was not built until 1831. The first marriage was recorded there in 1832. A complete restoration of the old church was recently completed, and a restoration of the cemetery is planned.
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