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Wilson
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Created: Apr 22, 2012
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Wilson, one of North Carolina's most beautiful cities,is known as the "City of Beautiful Trees." Our City is very historic. Once known as America's largest tabacco industry. Wilson holds a reputation as the "City of Antiques". Our neighborhood is known as Woodard Circle. Once the most prominent area in the city as well as the gate way.
![Wilson, Wilson, one of North Carolina's most beautiful cities,is known as the "City of Beautiful Trees." Our City is very historic. Once known as America's largest tabacco industry. Wilson holds a reputation as the "City of Antiques". Our neighborhood is known as Woodard Circle. Once the most prominent area in the city as well as the gate way. , Built ca 1916 (CD) for the Cheatham family, the manager of the Export Leaf Tobacco Company, this substantial Colonial Revival residence was one of the handsomest houses erected in the prominent Woodard Circle neighborhood during the early twentieth century. The two-story, double-pile house has lost much of its impressiveness with the removal of its one-story porch during the 1950s and 1960s. As it now stands, the house focuses on the central bay of the northwest façade. The first story contains the entrance with transom and sidelights, the second story has a handsome Palladian window arrangement with Doric pilasters and a dentiled cornice, and the roof has a gable dormer with a small, Palladian window. The fenestration consists of single and double 12/1 sash windows with stone sills and brick soldier course windows. The oversized porch windows contain 30/1 sash. The main block of the house is covered by a slate clipped gable roof with interior and interior-end chimneys. Completing the house are a modillioned cornice with returns, two-story, hip-roofed wings on the rear elevations, a one-room rear ell with engaged porch carried by chamfered posts, rear shed rooms, and a brick soldier course water table. The handsome porch, known from documentary photographs, was carried by paired Tuscan columns and was connected by a turned balustrade. A similar porch on each of the side elevations was connected by an uncovered terrace. A balustrade with corner newels ran around the roof of all three porches. The spacious interior is handsomely finished in the Colonial Revival style. It features a wide center hall with a shoulder-height, three-tier, paneled wainscot, molded surrounds, large sliding doors to each of the front parlors, and a handsome closed stringer stair with its paneled newel set on the diagonal. The front parlors have overmanteles; the rest of the mantels are modest. The interior walls have, unfortunately, been covered with simulated wood paneling and has new ceilings. Mr. and Mrs. Cheatham occupied the house until their respective deaths in the 1940s and 1956. Occupied during the 1960s by L. Thomas and vacant for several years ca 1970, the house was then [1983] occupied as a rooming house for men. In about 2010, the house was foreclosed on, left abandoned & un loved till we bought it in Sept. of 2011 with the hopes to restore this beautiful home back to it's glory for our family to live in. If any home deserves to be crashed, it is this one! Our American history needs to be preserved! , East Coast](http://picklemedia1.scrippsnetworks.com/pickle_media1/media/DIY_Network/120422/Photo_Video_21477700311272868120108_square.jpg?1)
Heather Rice
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 | Flag
This could be one of the most beautiful homes when finally restored. What a jewell it will be... It is important for us to embrace these beautiful historical homes and restore them back to their original beauty. Please help them out by crashing this place.
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Darrell Roberts
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 | Flag
Historical homes in our country have taken a giant step backwards. It is a giant, noteworthy undertaking to restore and preserve these doors into our history/past. Instead of tearing them down, we should be building them up. Scott and Roxanne have decided to take on this challenge on their own, as a result of their love for historical homes in the south. Please help them by CRASHING THEIR HOME!!!
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Marca Parent
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 | Flag
Wouldn't it be wonderful to get this old glory back to it's former beauty. Please assist in doing so by crashing it.
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Brenda Arnsdorff
Posted: Apr 22, 2012 | Flag
PLEASE crash this house. It could look like an antebellum mansion, but without help it could look more like the Psycho house. What a crime that would be!
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