Green Duke House

Green Duke House
Location SE of Manson off SR 1100, Soul City, near Manson, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°24′52″N 78°13′51″W / 36.41444°N 78.23083°W / 36.41444; -78.23083Coordinates: 36°24′52″N 78°13′51″W / 36.41444°N 78.23083°W / 36.41444; -78.23083
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built c.1800 (1800), c. 1900
Architectural style Georgian, post-Victorian
NRHP Reference # 74001383[1]
Added to NRHP August 7, 1974

Green Duke House is a historic plantation house located at Soul City, near Manson, Warren County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800 as a Georgian style dwelling, and remodeled in the post-Victorian style about 1900. It is a two-story, five bay, frame dwelling with a hipped roof. The front and rear facades feature one-story porches with the elaborate Ionic order columns. At the time of its listing, The house was being used as a day care center.[2]

Duke was the surname of an early landowner, and Green the maiden name of his wife.[3] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Survey and Planning Unit Staff (April 1974). "Green Duke House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  3. ↑ Powell, William S. (9 November 2000). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 2, D-G. University of North Carolina Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8078-6701-3.


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