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W. Stokes Boney House

Coordinates: 34°44′31″N 77°59′09″W / 34.74194°N 77.98583°W / 34.74194; -77.98583
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W. Stokes Boney House
W. Stokes Boney House is located in North Carolina
W. Stokes Boney House
W. Stokes Boney House is located in the United States
W. Stokes Boney House
Location651 E. Southerland St.,
Wallace, North Carolina
Coordinates34°44′31″N 77°59′09″W / 34.74194°N 77.98583°W / 34.74194; -77.98583
Area17.8 acres (7.2 ha)
Built1878 (1878)–1890; 134 years ago (1890)
Built byW. Stokes Boney, George Blanton
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSDuplin County MPS
NRHP reference No.99000812[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 8, 1999

W. Stokes Boney House is a historic house located at 651 East Southerland Street in Wallace, Duplin County, North Carolina. It is locally significant as a highly unusual two-story frame house notable for the eighteen-degree inward bend of the prominent side gabled main block.

Description and history

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It was built between 1878 and 1890 by mill owner and farmer W. Stokes Boney, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style wood-frame dwelling with a side gable roof and 18 degree inward bend. The house features a full-width, double-tiered engaged porch. Also on the property are the contributing smokehouse (c. 1850) and grape arbor (1890).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1999.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Emily Browder Lee (March 1999). "W. Stokes Boney House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.