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The Bank of Onslow and the Jacksonville Masonic Temple are two adjoining historic buildings located at 214 and 216 Old Bridge Street, in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina. The buildings are in the Beaux Arts architecture and Tudor Revival architecture , and were constructed in 1916, and 1919 respectively. [ 2 ]
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes. [1]
According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
In 2000, 3,578,718, or 3.1% of the American housing stock, were holiday or second homes, compared with 2.7% in 1990, and 1.9% in 1980. 26% of all these are located in the north-eastern states, with approximately 250,199 (7% of all the second homes in the U.S.) located in New York, and Maine having the largest percentage of its housing stock as ...
A North Carolina Geodetic Survey triangulation marker is located on the summit. The Deep Gap Trail proceeds beyond Mount Craig to other North Carolina high peaks including Big Tom , Cattail Peak , Balsam Cone , Potato Knob and through Deep Gap to Winter Star Mountain , Gibbs Mountain and Celo Knob .
The United States District Court for the District of North Carolina was established on June 4, 1790, by 1 Stat. 126. [2] [3] On June 9, 1794, it was subdivided into three districts by 1 Stat. 395, [3] but on March 3, 1797, the three districts were abolished and the single District restored by 1 Stat. 517, [3] until April 29, 1802, when the state was again subdivided into three different ...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) [14] is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States .
The Ganesh temple of Hindu Temple Society of North America is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western hemisphere, in Flushing, Queens, New York City. Swaminarayan Akshardham in Robbinsville , New Jersey , U.S., is the world’s second-largest Hindu temple and the largest and most-visited Hindu temple outside Asia .