Tucker Carriage House

Tucker Carriage House
Location 114 Saint Mary's Street, Raleigh, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°46′55″N 78°39′02″W / 35.78194°N 78.65056°W / 35.78194; -78.65056Coordinates: 35°46′55″N 78°39′02″W / 35.78194°N 78.65056°W / 35.78194; -78.65056
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built c. 1883 (1883)
Architect Percival, William
Architectural style Queen Anne, Shingle
NRHP reference # 75001297[1]
Added to NRHP February 13, 1975

The Tucker Carriage House is a historic carriage house located at Raleigh, North Carolina. It is a large, three-story outbuilding that is the only remaining structure from the estate of Rufus Sylvester Tucker, a Confederate army officer and prominent merchant in post-Civil War Raleigh. It is believed to have been built around 1883, when Tucker purchased materials for a "wagon shed", but does not appear on maps of the area until 1909.[2][3]

The carriage house is 35 feet (11 m) wide and 100 feet (30 m) long, and originally housed the estate's wheeled vehicles as well as the horses and mules that pulled them. The building is sheathed in clapboard on the first floor, and shakes on the second. The roof is covered with slate shingles and is capped by a square cupola that served to ventilate the interior.

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Flowers, John Baxton (1975-01-28). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-09-30.
  3. ↑ "Tucker Carriage House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-09-30.


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