Cleaton House, Vultare, North Carolina 2

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On April 27, 2021 I passed by this place--and discovered it had been demolished. Gone.

(Five images constitute the photo set on this structure--all photos taken on a very foggy morning and at some distance from the house itself) The unoccupied House, built circa 1895, is at Vultare, in Northampton County, North Carolina; Vultare is a named crossroad of North Carolina state route 46 and Oak Grove Church Road. It's a 3-bay weatherboarded structure, typical of the times, with an added 2-tier porch showing a touch of Classic Revival style. It's an I-style house at its core with early 20th century additions of the porch and a rear addition. The roof is metal, a steeply pitched side gable roof with partial gable returns. The upper level of the porch has a balustrade of square railings and is accented by the four piers with lattice-work pattern. The bottom level has no baluster. The front facade is symmetrical with the wood, single-leafed door centrally placed; paneled sidelights with four panes flank the entrance. Narrow cornerboards are evident at the edges of the front facade. Two wooden posts are at the beginning of the walk to the front porch, where the walk joins the lawn. The first owner was Robert Elroy Cleaton, originally from Brunswick County, Virginia, a few miles north of this structure. The house is not eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. It fails to meet various criteria: the house "is not known to be associated with any important historical event or trend in Northampton County or rural North Carolina as a whole"; in addition the architecture "does not represent the work of a master nor possesses high artistic values, nor does it represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may be, singly, undistinguished."

My major source of information is a 2017 publication of the State Historic Preservation Office (of North Carolina), "Historic Architectural Eligibility Evaluation" relating to widening and improving apart of NC state route 46. It is located online as a pdf file, files.nc.gov/ncdcr/historic-preservation-office/PDFs/ER%2... (pages 190-202).

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Taken on: February 25, 2020

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