Built 1848 (1848) Opened 1848 Added to NRHP 24 April 1973 | NRHP Reference # 73001299 Area 3 ha | |
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Location About 4 miles W of Morganton off NC 126, near Morganton, North Carolina Architectural style Greek Revival architecture | ||
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Swan Ponds is a historic plantation house located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built in 1848, and is a two-story, three bay, brick mansion with a low hip roof in the Greek Revival style. It features a one-story low hip-roof porch with bracketed eaves, a low pedimented central pavilion, and square columns. Swan Ponds plantation was the home of Waightstill Avery (1741–1821), an early American lawyer and soldier. His son Isaac Thomas Avery built the present Swan Ponds dwelling. Swan Ponds was the birthplace of North Carolina politician and lawyer William Waightstill Avery (1816–1864), Clarke Moulton Avery owner of Magnolia Place, and Confederate States Army officer Isaac E. Avery (1828–1863).
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.