Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina)

Heartsease
Heartsease, September 2019
Location113 E. Queen St., Hillsborough, North Carolina
Coordinates36°4′44″N 79°6′7″W / 36.07889°N 79.10194°W / 36.07889; -79.10194
Arealess than one acre
Built1820 (1820)
NRHP reference No.73001362[1]
Added to NRHPApril 11, 1973

Heartsease is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1770, and consists of a 1+12-story, three-bay, central block dating to the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century 1+12-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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1] It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Survey and Planning Unit Staff (December 1972). "Heartsease" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.