{"nrhp_refnum":"86001171","name":"Tate, Franklin Pierce, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"410 W. Union St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Morganton","county":"Burke County","state":"NC","lat":35.740724829000044,"lon":-81.69443016499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Colonial Revival residence at 410 West Union Street in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, built in 1928 of Mount Airy granite and designed by New York architect Electus D. Litchfield.","why_significant":"The house is presented as one of the finest and most sophisticated Colonial Revival buildings in Morganton, the style favored by the town's 1920s entrepreneurial class. It is also associated with banker and mill president Franklin Pierce Tate and his wife Martha Thomason Tate, a principal of the North Carolina School for the Deaf.","narrative":"Built in 1928 on a nearly three-acre lot along West Union Street in Morganton, this two-story house combines Georgian and Federal-era design with 1920s conveniences. New York architect Electus D. Litchfield designed it, and it is faced in rock-cut granite from the Mount Airy quarry of the North Carolina Granite Corporation. Its features include a slate roof, a five-bay front with a semicircular columned portico, an elliptical fanlight over the entry, and a cantilevered oak staircase in the center hall. It was built for Franklin Pierce Tate, a Morganton banker, real estate figure and cotton-mill president, and his wife Martha Thomason Tate, who served as principal of the North Carolina School for the Deaf. West Union Street was the town's leading residential address, and this house is described as its most architecturally sophisticated Colonial Revival example. A rehabilitation in 1983-85 added landscaping and altered some interior materials while keeping the overall character.","period_of_significance":"1900- (built 1928)","architect_builder":"Electus D. Litchfield, Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (Georgian Revival)","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Private residence in excellent condition; restored and rehabilitated in 1983-85 by the then owners, with some altered interior features and new landscaping.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.926293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7182/47718269/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86001171.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001171/5906ac418e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001171/5906ac418e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Warren LeMay","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Pierce_Tate_House,_Morganton,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Warren LeMay</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Pierce_Tate_House,_Morganton,_NC.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"87001931","name":"West Union Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/west-union-street-historic-district-87001931/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718269","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce_Tate_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158637"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/burke-county/tate-franklin-pierce-house-86001171/"}