Mordecai_Zachary_House

Mordecai Zachary House

Mordecai Zachary House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States


The Zachary-Tolbert House, also known as the Mordecai Zachary House,[2] is a restored pre-American Civil War house located at Cashiers, Jackson County, North Carolina. The house was built between 1850 and 1852, and is a two-story, five bay Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a low hipped roof and central front, two-story, portico. A frame two-room kitchen was added to the rear elevation and was connected to the house by a covered breezeway in the 1920s.[3]

Quick Facts Location, Coordinates ...

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

The house is owned by the Cashiers Historical Society and operated as a historic house museum that features a collection of hand-crafted ‘plain-style’ furniture.[4][5]

See also


References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Cashiers NC History: David Mordecai Zachary". Laurel Magazine. December 30, 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  3. Ellen Pratt Harris and Jane G. Nardy (August 1998). "Mordecai Zachary House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
  4. "Zachary-Tolbert House". Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  5. "Plain-Style Furniture". The Laurel Magazine. Retrieved 2018-06-09.



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Mordecai_Zachary_House, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.