Elmwood (Raleigh, North Carolina)


Elmwood
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Elmwood, September 2014
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Location	16 N. Boylan Ave., Raleigh, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°46′53″N 78°38′56″W / 35.78139°N 78.64889°W / 35.78139; -78.64889Coordinates: 35°46′53″N 78°38′56″W / 35.78139°N 78.64889°W / 35.78139; -78.64889
Area	less than one acre
Built	1810 (1810)-1815, c. 1830, c. 1870, c. 1890-1910
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP Reference #	75001294^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 29, 1975

Elmwood is a historic home located at Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. It was built about 1810-1815, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay by four bay, Federal-style frame dwelling with a gable roof and dormers. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has two exterior end double-shouldered chimneys. It has a two-story wing added about 1830, and asymmetrical side and rear additions built about 1870, and between about 1890 and 1910. It features a one-story full width front porch with a hipped roof added about 1870. It was the home of John Louis Taylor (1769–1829), an American jurist and first Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and North Carolina politicians William Gaston (1778-1844) and Romulus Mitchell Saunders (1791-1867).^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ John Baxton Flowers, III; Mary Alice Hinson (July 1975). "Elmwood" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-05-01.

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