{"nrhp_refnum":"100002046","name":"Magnolia Place (Boundary Decrease)","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1201 Burkemont Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morganton","county":"Burke County","state":"NC","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2018-01-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Magnolia Place is a large brick mansion near Morganton in Burke County, North Carolina, combining an earlier Federal-style house with a Greek Revival temple-form addition. The original Federal block was built about 1818 by John Henry Stevelie, and the Greek Revival section was added by Clarke Moulton Avery after 1847.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an impressive Greek Revival temple-form building that unusually incorporates an earlier Federal structure. It is described as one of an important group of antebellum mansions in the Catawba River valley and is of particular local significance through its connection with the Avery and Walton families.","narrative":"Magnolia Place is a large brick mansion near Morganton in Burke County, North Carolina, where an earlier Federal house built about 1818 by John Henry Stevelie was joined to a Greek Revival temple-form section. Stevelie, a Swiss-born merchant who had bought the plantation from Daniel Morgan, served as a state senator from 1804 to 1806. In 1841 Clarke Moulton Avery married Elizabeth Tilghman Walton, and in 1847 her father sold the couple 915 acres including the brick house. Avery soon more than doubled the house, reorienting it from east-west to north-south. The addition has a full-height porch of three fluted Doric columns, a common gable roof, and Asher Benjamin-style mantels in the dining room and parlor. The house is valued as one of the important antebellum plantation mansions of the Catawba River valley and for its links to the prominent Avery and Walton families.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.043343-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/7193/47719305/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001297.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/burke-county/magnolia-place-boundary-decrease-100002046/"}