Alphonse Calhoun Avery House
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Alphonse Calhoun Avery House | |
![]() Alphonse Calhoun Avery House, August 2019 | |
Location | 408 N. Green St., Morganton, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°44′53″N 81°41′36″W / 35.74806°N 81.69333°W |
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
Built | c. 1876 |
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 84001947[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 12, 1984 |
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 a 2+1⁄2-story, squarish, brick tower topped by a mansard roof.
Alphonso Calhoun Avery was born at Swan Ponds in 1835, the fifth son of Isaac Thomas Avery (1785-1864).[2] Avery had a notable legal, military and political careers highlighted by an eight-year term as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1] It is located in the North Green Street-Bouchelle Street Historic District.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Who Was Who in American History - the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1975. p. 20. ISBN 0837932017.
- ^ James Randall Cotton (March 1984). "Alphonse Calhoun Avery House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Victorian architecture in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1876
- Houses in Burke County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Burke County, North Carolina
- Historic district contributing properties in North Carolina
- Western North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs