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W.A. Hart House 1109 Main St., Tarboro NC

This house exhibits a full-blown Neo-classical style rare in Tarboro. Located at 1109 Main Street, the house was completed ca. 1909 for William A. Hart. He was a highway commissioner for this region and a leading businessman. He established the William & Mary Hart Church in Leggett. The house features a full height portico with Corinthian columns with a one story flanking Ionic porch. Parts resemble the Frank Hart house near Battleboro community.

Built in 1853, St. Louis County, Missouri. Italianate style country home of Louis Benoist, pioneer banker of old St. Louis. Made from limestone quarried at the site.

This is the Singleton Plantation home. I know it’s antebellum and believe it was started in the late 1840s. It’s in Eastover South Carolina. As the story goes the Grabdmother was the only one in the home as Sherman’s troops were sent to burn it down . The Officer in charge said the woman reminded him of his Grandmother and did not harm the home. A paper mill bought all of the property that included the home and had it fully restored. The coupala ot the Italianate style home had 4 drains that took rain water to a brick cistern in the basement. We were able to tour it and of course it had beautiful wood work and furniture.