National Historic Landmark -Coolmore

National Historic Landmark -Coolmore

This plantation complex incorporates one of the largest, finest, and best-documented examples of a mid-19th-century Italian villa in the South.

The interior of the Italianate edifice is particularly elaborate with a profusion of wooden and plaster ...

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

Built c. 1725 and remodeled in 1756-58, this structure is an outstanding example of a timber-framed residence illustrating the transition from 17th century Jacobean to 18th century Georgian architectural styles.

In all the southern colonies, it is ...

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

In 1890 Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, organized the American Tobacco Company, preeminent in its time.

The family's frame house, reconstructed small tobacco factory of log construction, and frame third factory (c. ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Fisher

National Historic Landmark -Fort Fisher

An earthen Confederate stronghold which created an impassable barrier for the blockading Union fleet.

Its fall, in January 1865, helped spell the collapse of the Confederacy.

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National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of ...

National Historic Landmark -Hayes Plantation

National Historic Landmark -Hayes Plantation

This imposing plantation house, dating from 1814-1817 and designed by William Nichols, is one of the South's most accomplished examples of a five-part Palladian villa.

The frame building's central block is connected to dependencies connected by ...

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

Residence (1829-49) of Helper, author of THE IMPENDING CRISIS (1857), a book which condemned the institution of slavery for economic, though not moral, reasons.

The publication was used for political purposes by the Republicans ...

National Historic Landmark -Market House

National Historic Landmark -Market House

Built in 1838, this structure is unique in that it is one of the few structures in America which employs the town hall-market scheme found in England.

Meat and produce were sold under the open first-floor arcade ...

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

Built by Francis Nash, Revolutionary War hero and general.

Home, from 1782 until his death in 1790, of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina and a delegate to the ...

National Historic Landmark-N C Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a ...