Heartsease
Heartsease, September 2019
Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina) is located in North Carolina
Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina) is located in the United States
Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina)
Location113 E. Queen St., Hillsborough, North Carolina
Coordinates36°4′44″N 79°6′7″W / 36.07889°N 79.10194°W / 36.07889; -79.10194
Arealess than one acre
Built1820 (1820)
NRHP reference No.73001362[1]
Added to NRHPApril 11, 1973

Heartsease is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1770, and consists of a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, central block dating to the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century 1+1⁄2-story east wing, and two-story pedimented west wing added in the late 19th century. It is topped by a gable roof and features a shed porch whose roof supported by plain Tuscan order posts. It is believed that Heartsease served as the pre-Revolutionary home of Thomas Burke, North Carolina's third governor and a member of the Constitutional Convention.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1] It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Survey and Planning Unit Staff (December 1972). "Heartsease" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.

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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
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