W. Stokes Boney House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


W. Stokes Boney House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

34°44′31″N 77°59′09″W / 34.74194°N 77.98583°W / 34.74194; -77.98583
Area	17.8 acres (7.2 ha)
Built	1878 (1878)–1890; 134 years ago (1890)
Built by	W. Stokes Boney, George Blanton
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Duplin County MPS
NRHP reference No.	99000812^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 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

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

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ 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.