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Harwood Hall, also known as the George Watts House, was a mansion in the Morehead Hill Neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. It was built for American manufacturer and philanthropist George Washington Watts in 1897.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Oldest two-story brick house in North Carolina. National Register of Historic Places, 1972. [7] Duke-Lawrence House: Northampton County, North Carolina: 1747 House One of NC's oldest colonial homes. The original western frame section was built about 1747, with the eastern brick section built between 1787 and 1796.
Dec. 31—When Georgia O'Keeffe had a nasty fight with salon maven Mabel Dodge Luhan, she fled to the Harwood. When Taos Society of Artists member Victor Higgins failed to sell a painting, he hung ...
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
William Alderman Linton was born February 8, 1891, in Thomasville, Georgia.William Linton's brother and sisters died and his parents separated in the first 10 years of his life.
Hammond–Harwood House Main Facade The Villa Pisani, Montagnana from The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio, Giacomo Leoni, 1742. The house ranks architecturally with many of the great mansions built in the late Colonial period; however, it is among only a few houses in British North America directly inspired from a plate in Palladio's, I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura.
The Alexander Funeral Home is the oldest African American owned business in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Alexander Funeral Home was founded by Zechariah Alexander in 1914 when Alexander bought half of Coles and Smith Undertakes. In 1927 Alexander purchased the remaining part of the business and changed the name to the Alexander Funeral Home.