Green Duke House

Green Duke House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	SE of Manson off SR 1100, Soul City, near Manson, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°24′52″N 78°13′51″W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	c.1800 (1800), c. 1900
Architectural style	Georgian, post-Victorian
NRHP reference No.	74001383[1]
Added to NRHP	August 7, 1974

Green Duke House is a historic plantation house located at Soul City, near Manson, Warren County, North Carolina. It was built about 1800 as a Georgian style dwelling, and remodeled in the post-Victorian style about 1900. It is a two-story, five-bay, frame dwelling with a hipped roof. The front and rear facades feature one-story porches with elaborate Ionic order columns. At the time of its listing, the house was being used as a day care center.[2]

Duke was the surname of an early landowner, and Green the maiden name of his wife.[3] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Survey and Planning Unit Staff (April 1974). "Green Duke House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
3. Powell, William S. (9 November 2000). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 2, D-G. University of North Carolina Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8078-6701-3.