Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 73001362 Added to NRHP 11 April 1973 | Built 1820 (1820) Opened 1820 | |
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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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