Alphonse Calhoun Avery House


Alphonse Calhoun Avery House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
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Location	408 N. Green St., Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°44′53″N 81°41′36″W / 35.74806°N 81.69333°W / 35.74806; -81.69333Coordinates: 35°44′53″N 81°41′36″W / 35.74806°N 81.69333°W / 35.74806; -81.69333
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	c. 1876 (1876)
Architectural style	Late Victorian
NRHP Reference #	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 2-l/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). 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.^[2]

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 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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 2014-08-01.

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