{"nrhp_refnum":"73001300","name":"Tate House","other_names":["The Cedars"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 S. King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morganton","county":"Burke County","state":"NC","lat":35.74418276200004,"lon":-81.68893045899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick house in downtown Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, occupying most of a city block. The core is a Greek Revival house that was remodeled in the Second Empire style around 1868.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a clever and ambitious adaptation of a Greek Revival house into the Second Empire style. It also argues the house is a monument to Samuel McDowell Tate, a local figure who served in the Civil War, the railroad, the state legislature, and state offices, and who helped bring two state institutions to Morganton.","narrative":"Brick house in downtown Morganton, built in the Greek Revival style by Dr. William L. McRee, a physician who died in 1855. Samuel McDowell Tate bought it after McRee's death and, after his 1866 marriage to Jennie Pearson, remodeled it around 1868 in the Second Empire style. The work added a mansard roof, a three-story octagonal tower, and porches with turned posts. Tate was a Confederate captain who was promoted to lieutenant colonel at Gettysburg. After the war he was president of the Western North Carolina Railroad and later served in the state House, as national bank examiner, and as state treasurer. He helped secure the Hospital for the Insane and the removal of the North Carolina School for the Deaf to Morganton. The interiors retain Victorian parlors, a dining room with paneled ceiling, and Greek Revival trim on the second floor.","period_of_significance":"19th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; remodeled in Second Empire style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Irene Tate, the last survivor of the couple's ten children, retains a life estate in the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.338621-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/7193/47719311/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/73001300.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001300/70875b8f41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001300/70875b8f41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"PLHicks","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tate-house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">PLHicks</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tate-house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719311","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_House_(Morganton,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158632"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/burke-county/tate-house-73001300/"}