Alphonse Calhoun Avery House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place
Alphonse Calhoun Avery House
U.S. Historic district
Contributing property
Alphonse Calhoun Avery House, August 2019
35°44′53″N 81°41′36″W / 35.74806°N 81.69333°W / 35.74806; -81.69333
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Builtc. 1876 (1876)
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.84001947[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 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+12-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

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Who Was Who in American History - the Military. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1975. p. 20. ISBN 0837932017.
  3. ^ 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.
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