National Historic Landmark -Christ Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark -Christ Episcopal Church

Begun in 1846, this edifice is one of the first Gothic Revival churches in the Southern states.

Designed by Richard Upjohn, this modest asymmetrical building with a steeply pitched roof was derived from a rural ...

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

Sandburg, the poet, novelist, and writer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1967.

C.G. Memminger, the builder of the house, was Secretary of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Cooleemee

National Historic Landmark - Cooleemee

Constructed in 1850-55, this is a monumental example of the villas that became popular in America as a result of architectural pattern books of the 1850s (in this case, W.H. Ranlett's THE ARCHITECT, Vol. I, Plate ...

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 ...