View, Joe Wilson Home, Hickory, North Carolina
Joe Wilson House (Hickory, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- View, Joe Wilson Home, Hickory, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Chimneys
Houses
- Original Format:
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Black and white print (photograph)
- Extent:
- 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 in.
- Item identifier:
- bh0218p01
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Architectural photographs
- Location:
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Hickory (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Wilson, Joe House (Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina)
- Delineator:
- Sills, Ernest K. more info on Sills, Ernest K.
- Built:
- Street:
- First Avenue
- Community:
- Hickory
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- Joe Wilson, first owner
- Architectural note:
- In 1957, the home underwent reconstruction, gaining plumbing and a stairway. This log house, although of very simple plan and construction, represents a type of building which was so much a part of our early history and so prevalent at one time, unfortunately only a few examples remain.
- Historical note:
- The Joe Wilson House was built in 1820, ten miles south of Hickory on the Startown road. The property on which the house was built later became the Henry C. Cline property. Joe Wilson assisted in the creation of Catawba County from Lincoln County. The house was occupied until the early 1900's when the last of Mr. Wilson's descendants moved out. In 1952 the Catawba County Historical Society became interested in the house and through the efforts of Raymond Hefner, mayor of Hickory and president of the Historical Society. In 1952, the house was moved Startown Road to the Old Robinson Cemetery on First Avenue. All the remains at the original location is a well and the foundations of a potato house.
- Location:
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Hickory (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Houses