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Alphonse Calhoun Avery House

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Alphonse Calhoun Avery House
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Alphonse Calhoun Avery House, August 2019
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Location408 N. Green St., Morganton, North Carolina
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Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Builtc. 1876 (1876)
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.84001947[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 12, 1984

Alphonse Calhoun Avery House, also known as the Avery-Surnrnersette House, is a historic home located at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1876, and is a two-story, U-shaped, Late Victorian style brick house. It features a 2+12-story, squarish, brick tower topped by a mansard roof.

Alphonso Calhoun Avery was born at Swan Ponds in 1835, the fifth son of Isaac Thomas Avery (1785-1864).[2] Avery had a notable legal, military and political careers highlighted by an eight-year term as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1] It is located in the North Green Street-Bouchelle Street Historic District.

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