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Hill Airy

historic house in North Carolina, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ18711579 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hill Airy is a historic plantation house located near Stovall, Granville County, North Carolina. It was built about 1841, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five-bay, vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a central hall plan and exterior double shouldered end chimneys. It also has a large garden on the grounds in the shape of a Maltese cross.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hill Airy” as historic house in North Carolina, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1841, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hill, Airy and historic can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as historic house in North Carolina, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18711579. Authority coordinates are 36.410, -78.565. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1841 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hill Airy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.