Heartsease (Hillsborough, North Carolina)
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Heartsease | |
 Heartsease, September 2019 | |
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| Location | 113 E. Queen St., Hillsborough, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°4′44″N 79°6′7″W / 36.07889°N 79.10194°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1820 |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001362[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1973 |
Heartsease is a historic home located at Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina. It was built about 1770, and consists of a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, central block dating to the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century 1+1⁄2-story east wing, and two-story pedimented west wing added in the late 19th century. It is topped by a gable roof and features a shed porch whose roof supported by plain Tuscan order posts. It is believed that Heartsease served as the pre-Revolutionary home of Thomas Burke, North Carolina's third governor and a member of the Constitutional Convention.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1] It is located in the Hillsborough Historic District.
