Frank Smathers House

Frank Smathers House
Frank Smathers House, January 2019
Location724 Smathers St., Waynesville, North Carolina
Coordinates35°30′24″N 82°58′51″W / 35.50667°N 82.98083°W / 35.50667; -82.98083
Area2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built1926 (1926)
ArchitectDeGarmo, Richard
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No.98000730[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1998

Frank Smathers House, also known as The Evergreens, is a historic home located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a 1+12-story, H-shaped, eclectic frame dwelling with Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival style design elements. It features a steeply pitched, cross gable roof with imbricated fish-scale asphalt shingles, brick interior slope chimneys, projecting eaves, and exposed rafters. Also on the property are a contributing barn (c. 1900) and stone retaining wall (1926). It was built as a summer home and family cottage for the Frank Smathers family, who owned the home from 1926 until 1988. U.S. Senator George Smathers (1913-2007), son of Frank Smathers owned the home, followed by Florida Secretary of State, Bruce Smathers, (1943) grandson of Frank Smathers, before being sold outside the family.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Megan D. Eades (July 1997). "Frank Smathers House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.

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