File:Zachary - Tolbert House, Cashiers, NC (45899943694).jpg
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 98001575. |
Summary
| Description | This is the Zachary-Tolbert House, also known as the Mordecai Zachary House, a National Register of Historic Places-listed property owned by the Cashiers Historical Society and operated as a house museum. Constructed circa 1851, the grand wood-frame Greek Revival-style house is the best example of the style west of Asheville in the state. The house was constructed by hand by Mordecai Zachary during the mid-19th Century, and is a fine example of the Greek Revival style. It is a bilaterally symmetrical building with five bays on its two floors on the front facade, consisting of a central bay that houses doorways that lead out onto a central portico, flanked by two sets of windows, with the first floor windows being nine-over-nine and the second floor windows being nine-over-six, owing to the second floor’s shorter height. The north side of the house features four bays, all windows that are of the same nature as those on the front facade, while the south side of the house has only two window bays, which are located adjacent to the rear of the house. The rear facade, meanwhile, is home to two large brick chimneys, as well as a single, centrally-located bay that is home to a doorway on the first floor and a window on the second floor. To the rear of the house is a 1920s one-story two-room kitchen building, with a much more rustic exterior, which is connected to the house via a breezeway. Inside, the house features a symmetrical center hall plan with four sizeable rooms per floor, which has never been painted and is home to a collection of hand-crafted “plain-style” furniture, some of which was made by Mordecai Zachary himself. The house was sold by the Zachary’s around 1873, and was primarily used as a summer residence, with the Tolbert family of Abbeville, South Carolina owning it from 1909 until 1997. I see a lot of similarities between this house and the more famous Drayton Hall near Charleston, SC in its history and in how intact and unchanged its historic fabric is, and in their formal nature. This house is very historically significant, and has been preserved and cared for lovingly by the local historical society. |
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| Source | Zachary - Tolbert House, Cashiers, NC |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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