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Shaw House (Shawboro, North Carolina)

Shaw House, also known as Cupola House, is a historic home located at Shawboro, Currituck County, North Carolina. It was built about 1885, and is a two-story, three bay by two bay, Italianate style frame dwelling on a brick foundation. It features a three-story tower and has a two-story rear wing. Also on the property are three contributing outbuildings and a well.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Defining Elements

  1. modest vernacular residential form
  2. asymmetrical front entrance
  3. specific cladding feature
  4. later renovations to the front verandah
  5. square verandah columns
  6. irregular fenestration
  7. small window at front entry
  8. fifteen-pane French front entry door
  9. internal red brick chimney with corbelled cap

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Claudia Roberts and Jim Sumner (November 1979). "Shaw House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
  3. ^ "Charles R. Shaw House". search.heritageburnaby.ca. Retrieved 2023-08-03.