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Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
73001362

Added to NRHP
  
11 April 1973

Built
  
1820 (1820)

Opened
  
1820

Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina)

Location
  
113 E. Queen St., Hillsborough, North Carolina

Heartsease is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1820, and consists of a 1 1/2-story, three bay, central block dating to the late-18th century, with an early-19th century 1 1/2-story east wing, and two-story pedimented west wing added in the late-19th century. It is topped by a gable roof and features a shed porch whose roof supported by plain Tuscan order posts. It is believed that Heartsease served as the pre-Revolutionary home of Thomas Burke, North Carolina's third governor and a member of the Constitutional Convention.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.

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Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina) Wikipedia